His Worship: Don't you think YOU ARE A COMMON CHEAT?
Madame thought she could be more politely called. a psychic reader. . Magistrate Hunt' emphatically repeated that, she was a cheat and asked defendant if she.- was going to give it up or go to gaol. :;,,,.,. ' "I'll give up '.fortune- telling, but I'm 'a. psychic reader," replied the woman; With ah encouraging "remark to the sub-inspector, to. keep all the folk of defendant's kidney , "on the run,'.; his Worship fined Williamana £5. "It's: ridiculous to fine' you £5," said <]vir.', Hunt to defendant, "but it is aipiicari^ do under this absurd Act. . Why, some of you women make £5 a day. Now go and earn your bread and butter honestly." Williamana went*
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NZ Truth, Issue 852, 18 March 1922, Page 5
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121His Worship: Don't you think YOU ARE A COMMON CHEAT? NZ Truth, Issue 852, 18 March 1922, Page 5
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