"GROWLED LIKE A DOG."
STHZZr CSOWD ENTERTAINED BY DRUNKEN SEAMAN. Probably hearing, or knowing that j becoming 'friendly with Bacchus drove ; away dull care. Patrick Michael Hannan j (22)', a seaman off the s.s. Port Bris- j bane, did a little alcoholic speeding ) yesterdav, and ultimately arrived at 1 the Police Station at the rate of about ten drinks an hour. Yesterday afternoon he entertained a great crowd in I Queen Street by shadow boxinr: in front j of-a larse mirror, according to what Constable" Chalcraft told Mr. YV\ R- j UeKean at the Police Court this morn- j ing. ' - I warned him to go away, but j some time later I found him in Queen ; Street, crawling along on his hands and j knees, growl'm? at the people like a ; do?." added the constable. [ '"Have you anything to say?" asked j the magistrate. _ j "Yes your Worship, I just had a drink j ■with the Duke yesterday, that's all!" j For being disorderly while drunk j Hannan was fined £1. or 4S hours' j imprisonment, the magistrate ordering him to be placed aboard the Port Bris- j bane should the vessel sail before the "-xpiration of the 4S hours.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1927, Page 11
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