USED BAD LANGUAGE TO INSPECTOR

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22804, 1 September 1939, Page 16

USED BAD LANGUAGE TO INSPECTOR

CAB ' DRIVER FINED (HUBS* 4JSOCUTXOX TKUSOB4JC.) ■ AUCKLAND, ■ August 31. Arrested on warrant at Auckland yesterday,- Robert' . Lewis 'Manins pleaded' guilty to charges of-'using obscene language at Ashhurst on the , " Napier-Palxnerston Ncrth main highway to - John. Hector Ronald Semple, and driving-a motor vehicle without ' due care and attention.' ■ The' ‘police ’ said that on Sunday, February 18/ Semple, a traffic inspector, •• was oh duty near the Ashhurst • racecourse > .wheht he •: saw Manins and a car 'Which-.passed the'.t<Sad. : 'HSemple followed and saw •Manin«F change places' with the driver car. ‘ The other I man- gave his name' and address, but .Manins refused . and . used' . obscene language. The 'Other- nianv.was subsequently ■ fined lor ' ‘ bad ' language, * but Manins was not »traced - until yesterday.> .Re had not been in trouble previously. Replying, jto - the - Magistrate,; Manins said nis friend was “driving a bit'wild.” - When he saw the inspector, and, knowing •■ his companion s had no driving ; licence, he changed over. “The in- - specter accused my friend of having too much to drink.-. I told him it had •'nothing to:,do with.him as I was driving.”- ■. • -v. ' -v, •' . • iVr.Tbe:Magistrate (Mr P. ,H. Levien): .There. excuse, for using such language toan inspector. : 'WNo' sir,’.*- replied.Manins, who was iSfet'itv-dned £2-for • using 'obscene -language j l; hj : ordered to pay. costs on the second - -..1