BEHIND THE SCENES OF A BAILIFF’S LIFE.
In the Christchurch District Court, yesterday, in the case Lottie Wilinot v- King, Lottie claimed £l5O damages for loss caused by excessive distraint for rent, and Judge Ward gave her a verdict for 10s without costs. One of the bailiffs doing business in Christchurch, admitted in Court to-day that lie had been levying distresses at the average rate of 26 per week for the last three years., His fee for each is ss, which would produce the respectable income of £260 a year. It is not a bad spec to be a limb of the law. < ’ '
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2955, 14 September 1882, Page 3
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