"If it had been a murder I was charged with it would have been all the same. I don't know anything about it," said a man charged in I lie Magistrate's Court. Wellington, yesterday, with nil offence alleged to have been committed while he was drunk He had previously been convicted tor drunkenness. Defendant said he did not rememlier committing the offence, and added that he was not in training. I think I will have a drink every day and get used to it," he said, “then I won't get arrested so much.’' The magistrate, Mr. J. 11. Luxford, imposing a prison sentence: "You will go out of training for one month.”
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 224, 20 June 1939, Page 10
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