DECORATOR FINED £25

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29388, 15 December 1960, Page 8

DECORATOR FINED £25

Insulting Language, Impersonated Police (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 14. When a 13-year-old school girl, riding her bicycle along Alfred street, Onehunga, stopped to tell a man sitting in a stationary car the way to a street he said he was looking for, she found herself subjected to a barrage of personal questions about herself and her girl friends, the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland was told today. The man sitting in the car. Norman Alolph Anderson, aged 35, a decorator, pleaded guilty to charges of using insulting language in a public place, and of imnersonating the police. The police prosecutor (Mr D N. McLean) told Mr H. Jenner Wily. S.M., that Anderson had asked the girl the way to a street which was only about 50 feet away.

"Unfortunately I cannot impose a term of imprisonment, which you rightly deserve.” the Magistrate told Anderson. “The insulting language charge carries only a penalty of £lO and I impose this as the maximum. “Your impersonation of the police is a minor offence of its nature and it would not be just to punish you too much.” Anderson was fined £l5 on this charge.