DISREGARD FOR THRIFT
COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE.
“It is extraordinary how farmers with all the facilities they have for taising their own meat prefer to pay butcher’s profit,” remarked Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Hamilton on Tuesday when questioning a'farm hand as to his means.. The magistrate also remarked that there was a disregard for thrift in the community. ■ ' . I; Th© defendant, was Frederick Henry Hagan, who admitted having failed to pay his unemployment levy, but pleaded that he was now without money.
The magistrate said defendant’s conduct. was not fair to .the rest;of tfie community who, while embarrassed, stijl paid their'levies,, Defendant was fined £l, and was given two months in which to pay. ’
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 November 1932, Page 12
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118DISREGARD FOR THRIFT Taranaki Daily News, 5 November 1932, Page 12
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