IS IT A FIREARM:

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 8, 4 October 1927, Page 13

IS IT A FIREARM:

A PISTOL AND OBSCENE LANGUAGE.

“.Recently in Whangarei a Magistrate held that a weapon such as accused is alleged to have presented at a person was not a firearm in tbe meaning of the Act,” said Mr. B. J. Dolan in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when appearing for George Sowman, a French polisher, aged 42, who was charged with having presented a pistol at Thomas Watson and of having carried it without permission. Mr. Dolan stated that the weapon, which was a Verey pistol, was used for sending up flares in wartime. On the application of Sub-Inspector Harvey accused was remanded until this morning. He was allowed bail in the sum of .£25, witli one surety of a similar amount. Watson, the man at whom the pistol was alleged to have been pointed, was fined J£2, in. default fourteen days’ imprisonment, for using obscene language. Accused stated he used the language when Sowman presented the pistol at him in Dixon Street.