THE LATE STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 February 1914, Page 5

THE LATE STRIKE.

ITS FAR-REACHING EFFECTS. (By Telegraph — l'ress Association.} AUCKLAND, Last Night. Another instance of the far-reach-ing character 6T the recent labour troubles in the matter of their reaction on the.life of the community in remote places came before the Police Court this morning, when a bankrupt named William Thomas Martin, aged 31, in admitting that he obtained credit by misrepresenta-* tion, pleaded in extenuation of his wrong-doing that he had a wife and three young children to keep, and._ had had to fight for them with his back to the wall in consequence of his being a "marked" man because of his attitude during a strike episode. Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M., said that he had long ago decided that in cases of fraud under the' Bankruptcy Act there must 1 always be a term of imprisonment imposed, upon conviction. People who cost the creditors money in this way, though* not dishonest in 'the ordinary sense, were a great detriment to the community. They went, into a business in wliich they used someone else's capital. If there was a loss, it fell on the creditors; if a gain, it went to the benefit of the other person. It'was a eas- of "heads I win, tails the other follow loses," His Worship was really sorry to impose imprisonment in this case", but it was necessary in the interests of the community. Defendant would be sentenced to a. month's hard labour.