TO BASK IN SUNSHINE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 39, 22 June 1927, Page 5

TO BASK IN SUNSHINE

BY SHIMMERING WAITEMATA. MARY ANN FOWLER’S DESTINATION. (Special to Post.) AUCKLAND, This Day. At the police court Mary Ann Fowlers’ case presented little, difficulty. This buxom woman of 51 had been found drunk in Airedale Street. Also, while being taekn to chokoy she used some language which is not to be heard in, Sunday schools. Then, again, by getting drunk, she procured liquor and thus shattered the prohibition order that was in force against her. “ITI go to the Island,” said she, ‘‘and I didn’t know I used such language-’’ “Has she. been to the Island before ?” asked the magistrate. “Yes, the poor old soul,” staid Major Gordon, “It is drink, that is her trouble, otherwise she is all right. T would suggest that she ishould be sent to the Island for another twelve months to keep her a,way from liquor.” And so Mary Ann Fowler, with her 63 previous convictions, was, committed to the island at Pakaitoa to bask fii the sunshine by flic shimmering waters of the Waiteniala for another year.