THE HABITUAL DRUNK.

NZ Truth, Issue 125, 9 November 1907, Page 6

THE HABITUAL DRUNK.

What Kelly's Razzle Cost Him.

The habitual drunkard craze is growing m Christchurch ; it is getting a munia with some people, and they are reaping m quod what they have sown m the bar. It doesn't take much to make a man an "habitual" nowadays, accordin' to the blessed statoots ; but when lie is mla.de one it usually means a long stretch of two years'. It is a long while to go without a booze — a long time between drinks— but the new law enacts that you i;eally musn't have swankey with meals or have a sore head m the morning. A YOUTHFUL LOOKING BLOKE, who responded to the name of Thomas Kelly, admitted having been four times convicted within the last nine months on Monday, and had not even half an excuse to offer. It seems that prohib order after prohib order was issued against him, but they were so damnably ineffective that they might as well have been issued to the first stray goat to be met with m the suburbs. Day, S.M., told him that under the caustic circumstances it would be useless to let him go, so he sent him - along for two years. However, he doesn't go to gaol, but to the Samaritan Home, where discipline must be observed, and you wasli your own socks on Saturdays.