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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 30 April 1914, Page 3

"Why gov. t yon give me what I in entitled to—the old-age pension?" asked an old woman of 77, who was thought before Mr H. ' W. Bishop, S.M,, at Christchurch the othsr day, charged with being an incorrigible rogue. "A nice person fo'r a pension." observed the magistrate contemptuously. "There are 60 convictions against you." The woman admitted that she could have been seen abroad in the streets at 5 a.m. on various occasions. "It agree with me to be out in the fresh morning air," she explained. The magistrate noticed that the accused had nothing wcTse than drunkenness and vagrancy on her voluminous record, and '.rdered her to come up for sentence when called upon. "If the police see you on the 1 streets within the next six months," he.said, "I'll send you to L'aol for 12 months."

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