WOMAN'S PRESS BILL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

WOMAN'S PRESS BILL.

£3OO IN A FORTNIGHT. JUDGE'S SHARP COMMENT. "This lavish dressing recalls the days of the French Revolution and sets a good many humble people wondering in these days, when there are so many hard-up and unemployed," declared Judge Sir Alfred Tobin in the couiso of the hearing of a recent case at tlio Westminster County Court. When an application was made for a committal order against Miss Iris Harrold respecting £3OO, due to a firm for dresses, the Judge expressed surprise that she should have been allowed to run up (he account in about, fortnight. A witness for the firm explained that Miss Harraid's method of living at expensive hotels in the West End suggested that sho was able to pay. The Judge: I am thinking rather of the methods of the firm. (To Miss Harrold): Have you any money of your own ? Miss Harrold: No. The Judge: I cannot make an order against a young woman merely in tlio hope that someone else will pay. Miss Ilarrold : Every time I went there I was asked to buy more.

The Judge: Had you been a customer? —No, I opened an account with £SO. I think I bought tlio first dress three months before.

Sir Alfred called attention to a list of 12 dresses, at prices ranging from £ls (o £4O each, and a hat at £l3. which, he staled, appeared to havo been supplied on credit in about a fortnight in July. "I think it is perfectly disgraceful'on both sides," commented Sir Alfred.

For the firm it was stated that Miss Harrold had offered £lO a month. Miss Ilarrold explained that sho was seeking employment at, a film studio. She could always borrow £lO when sho wanted it. The Judge: The case is adjourned indefinitely.