PROFANE LANGUAGE.
USED IN TRAMCAR. "I am satisfied that in the circumstances under which it was used, that the language was profane," said Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Police Court today. when giving his decision, which he reserved earlier in the week, in a case in which Bernard James Langstone, aged 32, a barber, denied that lie used profane language in a tram ear on March 22.
Mr. S. deal, who represented Langstone, said the charge was a most unusual one, and not of a serious nature. The language was not used to offend anyone, but merely in conversation while repeating to a friend what someone else had said. "Langstone has already been punished, for he was arrested by a detective who was on the tram and taken to the lock-up," added counsel. "He is a decent, married man with three children." Langstone was fined £2.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 73, 28 March 1941, Page 8
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