VAGRANT IN COURT
COMPLAINTS BY SETTLERS [by telegraph—own correspondent] WAIHI, Friday Charged beforo justices in the Waihi Police Court this morning with being a rogue and vagabond, William Alexander Campbell,. a half-caste, aged 39, made a strange statement to the effect that people had been "putting tha wireless over him," and otherwise tormenting him. ' Evidence went to show that Campbell had been living a nomadic life at Whangamata, going about scantily clad and subsisting on fish and pipia together with potatoes and kumaras taken from a relative's property. Complaints had been received from settlers that, he had been wandering about apparently with no means of support and in a pitiable condition. Accused was sentenced to two months' imprisonment without hard labour and was ordered to be placed under medical supervision.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21462, 8 April 1933, Page 13
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