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NZ Truth, Issue 605, 20 January 1917, Page 3

Lambeth Borough Council has refused to prohibit sU'eet cries, as the i poor like to know when the street vendors arc about. Lot us hopo (say 3 the "Globe") that few al fresco traders will be treated as was tho rag-and-bone man who was hailed from the j topmost window of a towering- block of workmen's dwellings. Up .flight j after flight of stairs he tolled, hbpins j that tho resulting' business would re- j pay him for the tiresome Journey. At ■ last ho was confronted by the woman who had called him and a tearful child. "Tell this naughty boy," said tho woman, with a smile, "that if ho doesn't be'ave you'll put him m your bag and take him away."