VAGRANCY DENIED
.WANDERED ABOUT STREETS Pleading not guilty to a charge of vagrancy in the Police Court yesterday, a Dalmatian .labourer, Mark Botica, aged 42, replied that he had been doing a bit of walking for his own good, when asked , why he was wandering aroiind the city streets during the early morning hours of Sunday and Monday. "Surely/ you could do your walking in the daytime, while looking for work?" asked the magistrate, Mr. W. R. McKean, who added that accused apparently did not like work. Sub-Inspector Flanagan said accused had done no work for three weeks, and had no mdney in* his possession when arrested. If he were a desirable type of man his countrymen would never have allowed him to wander about penniless .and have no place to sleep. A Salvation Army officer offered to take accused -to the home, and the magistrate orderijd accused to go there until work was found for him. He was convicted'and ordered to come up for sentence if required within a month.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23011, 12 April 1938, Page 16
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