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NZ Truth, Issue 92, 23 March 1907, Page 5

In Palmerston North a Chow, who keeps a fruit and confectionery shop has a sign m Ms window, ''Bed to Let." How inviting ! It is absolutely wonderful the number! of persons m Ohristchuroh, or its suburbs, or back country, or some o^her part of the colony, who get blind, horrrble, falWown-a-coal-mine drunk, and have to be remanded Tor medical treatment. It is something awful to have to hear the station sergeant ask for a remand on account of extreme shakiness, or delirium ts., or snakes with whisky on their tails. There are so many of them. There was one up Uii'x week for being a snake charmer of a sort, and he looked something terrible : m fact, he shouldn't have been m the dock, but he was theve all right, and seemed to Ihink ho was m hell with the lid off. At any rate the gent asked a policeman if thdre was a baker's furnace knocking about, and said h$ believed that somebody was running hades m the shape of a pocket-book. He was remanded, as were a number of "others. Christchurch has been too strong lattly,