“ I go in gaol for 21 days.” suggested a Maori debtor in the Waitara Magistrate’s Court the other morning as a means of extinguishing his debt for groceries for which a judgment summons had been taken out against him (reports the Taranaki Herald). “You will have to keep doing that if you do not pav.” pointed out counsel. “ Please yourself ’.’ cheerily replied the Maori. “I am ready any time you like.” “Unfortunately,” intervened the Magistrate, “that will not pay the debt. I do not suggest this man can pay £l3 on the spot, but I do not think he makes any attempt to pay.” The magistrate made an order and impressed upon the debtor that he would have to pay £1 a month. The Maori left the box reasserting that he could not pay because he had got nnthim; to do.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3868, 1 May 1928, Page 34
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