INSULTING LANGUAGE USED
MAN FfNED £5 (New Zeoisnd Fret* AssociattoM) RAPIER, April 11 A charge of attempting to incite Servicemen to stop working ph the Napier wharvts, brought Against a 25-year-ola Welsh seaman, pevid Kenneth. Hay, last week, was dropped when Ray appeared on retnana in. the Napier Magistrate's Court to-day. Instead, Ray was charged with uaing insulting language. The police said Ray had used the language to servicemen in 9 “Liqtior was in my talk,”' Ray told the Magistrate. z Commenting that the nature of the remark made by Ray wag highly provocative and could have led to- considerable trouble, the Magistrate imposed the maximum fine prescribed—
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26396, 14 April 1951, Page 4
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