WENT TO SLEEP IN RAWHITI DOMAIN.
SELECTED A TREE AND REMOVED HIS BOOTS.
John M’Donald, a seaman, aged forty-nine years, went to sleep under a tree in the New Brighton Domain last evening after carefully removing his boots. He chose a spot too close to the Bible Class Camp in progress there, with the result that the police were informed and Constable Henderson went along and arrested him on a charge of being an incorrigible rogue. M’Donald had previously been convicted for being a rogue and a vagabond. He appeared before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within three months if called on. “If you stay out of town you will hear no more of it,” said Mr Lawry. Constable Henderson said that the accused had been seen in the Domain on two other occasions. Witness had found him there once before and allowed him to go home on a tram. “ He has been doing a lot of cadging there,” said the constable.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 2
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