THE LIGHT THAT FAILED
CONTRITE FIGHTING MAN. “This is the fighting man who re» cently objected to being stopped,” said the City Traffic Inspector, Mr G. Fear, when a well-known local boxer was charged at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr J. S. Barton S M., with riding a bicycle without a li.ght. “Well, he is very contrite now," said the Magistrate, “and in a letter he has sent In he says that his financial position is bad.” “He has probably lost too much at boxing,” said a constable, who added that the defendant had been out of work for a fortnight, but now had a job to go to.
His Worship: “Fined £1 and 7s costs.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19056, 8 July 1924, Page 4
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117THE LIGHT THAT FAILED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19056, 8 July 1924, Page 4
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