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NZ Truth, Issue 1030, 22 August 1925, Page 8

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It seems that Harry James Murray! had been making a general nuisance of i himself around Prankton for about [three weeks. H* had received assistance from the Salvation Army, and [apparently had decided that, m order jto keep up his spirits, it was neces- ! sary to imbibe more, so he tried methylated. On the night before his arrest on the idle and disorderly charge, he was found asleep m a railway carriage at Prankton station. Work and Harry apparently don't hit It too well, so Harry adopted what he considered the wisest plan under the circumstances, to maintain harmony, and kept well away from any that j threatened to inflict its presence upon! him. The Hamilton Bench considered, however, that Harry's • antipathy to toil was quite unwarranted and, m order to break down his prejudice, sent him to Mt. Eden to try a little for a month. He has twenty-two previous convictions.

Overheard at riverside hostelry: Ancient and jealoug angler (Ironically) to apparently guileless youth, who has landed a 301 b salmon, now exposed In a glass case. "So that is the wonderful Hah you say you caught last month?" A.G.X, (modestly) : "Oh, no, sir; that's not the fish. That was only the bait."