CHILDREN NO EXCUSE
a man at Shoreditch Cotinty C°ur,t offered, to - pay X 45 arrears' of rent by instalments of-28 a week, Judge Cluer remarked ; ..‘'That means over eight years to_wipe off. . I can't .permit that/'. The Man : ' But jVe ten children/' . Judge--Cluer : 'fThat; is. not the landlord s fault. You chose to have ten children, and'the: landlord has not to pay for that. It's your own fault." This comment evoked a loud laugh from a man amonjr the public, whereupon the jud^econtinued;: .'‘Your large family.has nothing to do with your butcher or onker or that booby who guffawed down there j.Ußt;now ,If that booby Avere a butcher or baker, he would not let me have credit because I had a hundred children, or none." ' man was ordered to pay lfla a
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12041, 20 January 1925, Page 5
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