WESTPORT STOWAWAY
“NOT GIVEN FAIR CHANCE.”
“I never get a decent chance to make good in this country. lam an Irishman with an Irish-sounding name, and no one will give me a fanshow,” exclaimed Patrick Mclnerney, a miner, of Westport, when asked by Mr. E. Page, S.iVl., in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington, last week, whether he had anything to say in his defence. Patrick was before the court to answer a charge of travelling on the a.s. Ko.mata from Westport'to Wellington without first paying his fare and with intent to defraud. He pleaded guilty-. He had spent all his money on li z•]uor, he said, when it was imperative that he should somehow get to Wellington. So he decided to obtain a cheap trip across. Unfortunately for ..himself, however, he was discovered two hours out from Westport. Upon arrival in Wellington, he was handed over to the police. The magistrate ' imposed, a fine of £5, in default one week’s imprisonment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 December 1925, Page 3
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