POLICE COURT NEWS.
CONVICTION FOR BEGGING.
ILL-TREATMENT OF HORSE,
A charge of vagrancy, in that he begged alms in Queen Street, was admitted by Alfred Henry Patterson, dentist, aged 45, before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday.
Ifc was stated that accused had recently been discharged from the inebriates home on Roto Roa Island, and had £5 in his possession. He had a ticket to tia\el to Dtmedin and was prepared to leave Auckland. He appeared to have been drinking heavily, and the police had received several complaints that he had been begging. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. Cheung Hing, a Chinese market gardener, pleaded guilty to ill-treating a horse by driving it when it was suffering from a festered hoof. Counsel said accused was bringing the horse into the city to be rcshod when lie was arrested at Parnell. Accused wag convicted and ordered to pay costs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21115, 24 February 1932, Page 12
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