AMUSING THE CROWD
Labourer Who Step-danced In Cuba Street “I am more humorous than I am disorderly,” said William Terrence McSweeney, labourer, 40 years, when asked in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Saturday, how he pleaded to a charge against him of being drunk and disorderly. He was convicted by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., and discharged. Sub-Inspector C. E. Roach said that accused had been found step-dancing on the pavement in Cuba Street on Friday afternoon. He was in very jovial mood. He had also run backward and forward across the street. When approached by a police constable be said: “Your job is to maintain law and order; mine is to amuse the crowd.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 197, 18 May 1936, Page 14
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