“OFFENSIVE” LANGUAGE
Driver Stopped For Speeding
(N.Z. Press Association)
1 AUCKLAND, January 30. 1 A taxi-driver stopped for speeding ,in Auckland on October 19 called a traffic officer “a dirty, stinking, rot- ' ten pig," spat at him while he was writing a ticket, then clicked his heels and cried: “Heil, Hitler* before driving ofl, Mr M. C. Astley, S.M.. was told today by Traffic ' Officer F. B. Styles. The taxi-driver, Norman Edwin Page, aged 42. was fined £2O for speeding and his driving licence was cancelled for six months. H’S*- - Mr Styles said Page, who - bad a woman passenger, algo > said to him: “You may have i those dirty magistrates on . your side, but wait until I 1 *** Supreme The Magistrate said foe • tanguage Page used was crim; [ inatty offensive, vulgar and “He is obviously not fit to be driving a taxi," he said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 12
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144“OFFENSIVE” LANGUAGE Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 12
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