AN UNGRATEFUL OFFENDER.

Grey River Argus, 24 February 1927, Page 2

AN UNGRATEFUL OFFENDER.

Requites Magistrate’s Generosity. WITH ANOTHER OFFENCE. Charles Herbert Hughes was charged at the Police Court yesterday before Mr A. Naylor, J.P., with being drunk in the vicinity of Cowper Street on Tuesday afternoon. At a previous sitting of the Court recently when Hughes was fined for being drunk and for refusing to quit licensed premises, Mr Naylor paid the fine imposed on Hughes out of his own pocket, so that Hughes might go to work he was promised at Blackball.

When he appeared yesterday morning Hughes pleaded guilty. He admitted that he had had a few drinks, but said he had sought a quiet spot in which to get over their effects.

Sergeant Smythe said that people living in the locality of Cowper Street had complained about accused’s behav-

Pressed by His Worship, accused admitted that he had not been to Black ball. He had been offered work at Okarito Forks, but could not get accommodation. lie had also tried with out success to get work at Waiho anil Otira.

A fine of £3. in default seven days in gaol, was imposed. Time to pay was opposed by the police, ami Hughes u.r returned to the cells pending enquiries being made from a local resident whom Hughes thought would pay the fine.