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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 February 1921, Page 8

Oh, dont, your Worship; please don t send me to gaol," pleaded a man at the Magistrate's Court this morning when told by one of the presiding Justices that he was liable to three months' imprisonment. The man whose ,name was given as William Kirkwood, was still comparatively young, but he Wal A lrty. a°d unken»pt iv appearance, and the charge against him was that he was an idle and disorderly person without sufficient lawful means of support. Since his release from an inebriates' home, early m November, where lie had been for two years, he had, according to his own admissions, done practically no w*ork, and had spent his time going from! place to place begging money, wluch he usually spent on drink. He! had slept more frequently out-of-doors Iv J* ated ' and though he stated that he was not able to do very hard j work and had a weak stomach, he attacked food ravenously when taken to the police station last evening The '> Justices.(Messrs EkdaH and Preston), decided to give the man another chance, • and convicted and discharged him oh the understanding that he would leave the town and seek employment.