GAOL FOR VAGRANT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 254, 27 October 1939, Page 9

GAOL FOR VAGRANT

ONE MONTH’S IMPRISONMENT A TAIHAPE CASE With his clothes tattered and torn, "(a labourer, Harry Ratcliffe Jones, ap- ? peared before Messrs. H. Johnston 1 and E. Loader, J's.P., ? the Taihape r Magistrate’s Court on a charge of L ’ being idle and disorderly without any " lawful means of support. The accused e • pleaded not guilty. J I Constable W. R. Fleming stated in /evidence that he had noticed Jones ; hanging round the town doing noth5 : ing and he had advised accused to get r a job. Defendant had left the town (l for a short time and when he re- , turned, witness had kept him under observation. Accused had asked at a least three people for money. He had ,no means of support and was not . working nor was he registered under L. the Social Security Act. He had been ; | convicted previously for vagrancy. I Accused addressed the Court and dcJ dared that he had only been out of a gaol for a month and had not had 5 much opportunity of finding work. He was convicted and sentenced to .. one month’s imprisonment. * £1 17s 6d; lot of ditto, for £2 2s 6d; two small shackles for Bs. Twenty-six wicker coal baskets rea- . Used 5s each. / Tanks.-Four galvanised 200-gallon itanks at £2 each; one new 400-gallon ’ i tank, at £5 ss; three 400-gallon tanks, at £3 10s each; one 300-gallon tank, at t ( £4; two 200-gallon tanks at £2 15s r •each. Manila Rope. Six coils of 5-in ch Manila rope each containing not less than 100 fathoms of rope and valued a*at £24 a coil on current market rates I were sold for £6 5s a coil. h __