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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18208, 2 October 1933, Page 4

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VAGABOND SENTENCED SLEEPING ON THE BEACH Having only recently been discharged from gaol after serving a sentence of three months, Henry Kelly, 44, was brought before Mr. E. L. Walton, SAL, in the Police Court this morning, and was sent back to gaol for a further term of three months. As on the previous occasion, Kelly was charged with being a rogue and a vagabond, in that he had insufficient lawful means of support, and had previously been convicted as an idle and disorderly person. Constable Hynds, who arrested the accused, stated that Kelly had been camped at the back of the Borough Council’s plantation at Awapuni. He had been lying out on the beach, and had been cadging for food Senior-Sergeant Wade stated that for some time the accused had been sleeping on the beach, without cover of any kind. His principal food had been pipis, and lie hud had a number of camp fires, which were a menace to the borough plantation, a large portion of which was blunt out last year. Even if the accused hud work he could not do it, owing to physical disabilities. “The only thing that we can do with him is .to lock him up after he has had a periocl of freedom, and have him sent hack again,” said the senior-sergeant. “I may mention that the last time he was locked up his only grievance was that the term wasn’t longer.” The magistrate sentenced the accused to three months’ imprisonment.