SOLDIERS INSULTED.
COMPLAINT IN DUNEDIN.
(Per Press Association)
DUNEDIN, This Day
If the police could sheet home an offence against these individuals who insult those men and the King s uniform it would be a most serious matter for them, said Mr Bartholomew, S.M., when it was stated in the Police Court that there were certain individuals who “threw off” at soldiers in uniform when off duty. The comment arq.se when two soldiers were charged with assault and indecent language. The police stated that the men were at a pieeart when they were insulted by a man who “threw off” at them for being in uniform. There were hoodlums about the streets who frequently “threw off” at soldiers. The men’s officer told the Court that he had been twice insulted himself. The Magistrate, dismissing the charges, suppressed the names of defendants.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 45, 3 December 1940, Page 6
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