FROM FAR SHANGHAI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 532, 8 December 1928, Page 1

FROM FAR SHANGHAI

VAGRANT’S WANDERINGS WILL BE TAUGHT TO WORK That it was well worth someone’s while to pay James Gordon Mac Mann’s fare to New Zealand and give him a few pounds to leave Shanghai was shown by the police Report on his character this morning. Mac Mann. a telegraphist, aged 26, Pleaded guilty at the Police* Court to being idle and disorderly, having insufficient lawful means of support. According to Sub-Inspector McCarthy, Mac Mann had been in New Zealand about two months. His fare had been paid from Shanghai, and he had been given four or five pounds to save him from destitution when he landed in the Dominion. He had spent nearly all of that sum on drink in Sydney and on arrival in Auckland Pawned his bag and clothes. “He is hot looking for work,” continued the sub- inspector. “Kindly' people have fried to find him work, but it is of no hse. had a few pounds -cent to him the other day but he spent it all ? n a drinking bout. What he wants 13 to get into the habit of working.” Berhaps three months’ hard work nil ßht help him to form that habit.” remarked Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.M., who IT hpoßed sentence accordingly.