TOO FRIENDLY.
MAN HINDERS A POUet^fe "MORE STUPID THAN CBOq^ (By Telegraph.—Otth Corre^ondj^./ WELLINGTON, this diyA Elated as the result of some drh* 1 well-dressed clerk of 48 saw a ooeSj: on his beat in Cuba Street day evening. "mJn "How are you doing, Joe? ,, n e j ni ~._ affably. "TOU Constable Brown was busv j-j -. not wish to enter into converSifc? The chatty stranger was started to walk along the beat »££ the man in blue, singing the whiu" i£ would not go away, so the constabWWi to arrest him. "fl* "It was apparent that he'd had m> drink, but not enough to warrants! arrest for drunkenness," said Soie* Sergeant Lander when the man tww? before Mr. E. Page, S.M., eharttJHS obstructing a policeman in the exeevtk of his duty. "There was no pky|2 obstruction, but accused made a bm nuisance of himself." '*** Mr. Treadwell, counsel for said he was heartily ashamed of j£ absurd conduct. ™ Mr. Page said accused's act wag ««• stupid than criminal, and fined him fl" He extended a kindly ear to f rqwaj for the suppression of the name^^
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 8
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183TOO FRIENDLY. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 8
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