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TWO LABOURERS CHARGED “NOT WANTED IN HAMILTON” Deemed to be idle and disorderly persons, in that they had insufficient visible means of support, Reginald James McKegney, aged 39. labourer, and Arthur Peck, aged 39. labourer, were each sentenced to one month’s imprisonment when they appeared before Messrs G. K. Sinclair and W. Bourne, J’s. P., in the Police Court. Hamilton, today. Both pleaded guilty. “At about 4 p.m. yesterday these two men were seen accosting people in the street.” said Senior-Sergeant A. G. McHugh. “A short time previously they were ejected from a hotel lor accosting people and asking for money. Their previous records show that they are not the type of men we want in Hamilton.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21260, 2 November 1940, Page 8
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