"THOUSANDS BOOT IT."
LIVING ON £4 11s A WEEK. [BT TELEGEATH. —OWN ~ f O'RIIESPONDE'N T WELLINGTON. Monday. When Mr. W. Perry was pleading in the Supreme Court to-day that a -weekly ■wage of £4 lis was inadequate for a young man with a wife and child, the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, remarked that there were thousands of men in the country who were similarly placed, but who managed to live without finding their way to the Court on a criminal charge. Mr. Perry said that under the most ordinary circumstances to live on such a wage was not easy, but in view of the extraordinary circumstances which had confronted his client it was not possible to live on such a wage, and that was the reason why the young man had been indicted on a charge of theft.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18585, 18 December 1923, Page 11
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