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INJUSTICE OF THINGS MAN CHARGED AS VAGRANT A man who walked from Spr'ingston to Christhcurch in a day has been arrested for vagrancy. If he had wheeled a yokel i,n a barrow from Ashburton in a week he might have had? a c/ivie reception (remarks the Christchurch Sta,r-»Sun). His performance leaves the guardians of the law cold. “You are deemed,” they say,” “to bo an idle and disorderly person in that you have not lawful visible means of support.” That charge may have been in tune with the golden age, when work was so plentiful that to refuse i.t was an anti-social act, but to-day the bare words of the sta>tute are an anachronism. Idle and disorderly were never interchangeable terms, and (tens of thousands of men t have “no lawful visible means of suppfoirt” in the pre-depression moaning
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 163, 19 July 1935, Page 6
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