An amusing incident occurred at the Auckland Police court last Tuesday. An old constabulary man was ordered to pay for the damage which he had caused to a constable’s trowsers, and before leaving the dock he asked to have the trowsers for which he had to pay, assigning as his reason for the request that it was an old dodge of policemen to take these things home and trot them out again next time they were assaulted. The initiated appeared to be intensely interested in this method of augmenting a constable’s income imparted to them by one who had been in the swim.
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Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 60, 10 October 1885, Page 2
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