Mr A. Crooke, S.M., of New Plymouth, floes not hold > with the fairly widelyfreoognised practice of convicting and discharging a first offending inebriate, particularly a statutory first offender, that is,
r I i, a person who has not been convicted for drunkenness within the past six months, i- "If a man can afford to be drunk," ret- J marked Mr Crooke a day or two ago, "he t, can afford to pay a fine."
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Otago Witness, Issue 3397, 23 April 1919, Page 46
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