Hard on the Tools.— Since Hip police at Whakalane had no •slock of caslii'on tools on hand, an atlempl lo make the latest batch of prisoners in the • lock-np earn their keep failed rather | disastrously. First, they were inlro- ! duced to the wood pile; they broke jI he axe. Next, an atlempl was made, to get some gardening out of them; they broke the spade. When they started on hriar-cutt.ing the slashers went the way of all old •slashers; hut. the climax mine when they were ordered h> sweep out the cells —they broke the broom l
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 18764, 20 December 1935, Page 9
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