NOVEL COURT EXCUSE
A defendant who appeared before Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Wanganui Magistrate s Court regarding a eiaim for arrears of rent, explained that he had not paid his rent because the stove in the kitchen smoked. The house, he said, was not fit to live in. " You have a remedy," commented the magistrate. " Why don't you shift to another houser You are paying only 5s a week rent. I am afraid you have no defence." In entering judgment for the amount of the claim, the magistrate gave defendant two weeks in which to secure * new home.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22172, 27 July 1935, Page 14
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