ROWDY BEHAVIOUR

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 9, 11 January 1929, Page 8

ROWDY BEHAVIOUR

CONDUCT IN STREETS . POLICE TAKE ACTION For 1 some time past the police have been receiving complaints of disorderly behaviour and larrikinism on the part of young men in the city.. Residents in the Newtown district have been particularly annoyed,' especially in the vicinity of the Hospital. To-day three young men appeared before Mr. E. Page, S^.M., in the Magistrate 's Court charged with disorderly 1 behaviour in Riddiford street. Sub-Inspector Lander said there had been frequent complaints. Constable Suther!and: said he was in the Wellington South Police Station about 1 o 'clock on a recent morning, when he heard a noise and went out to investigate. He saw the three defendants near the Newtown School, shouting and yelling. "When he first saw them ho thought they were under the influence of liquor, judging by their actions. Mr. 0. C. Mazengarb, who appeared for the defendants, said that had the alleged offence, occurred in any other part of the city probably no notice would have been taken of it. It might have been that the young men were a little high spirited, but they certainly were not of the larrikin type. The Magistrate said that order and decorum were required late at night in the city, and if the defendants did not obsorve this, they must take the consequences. Noise was particularly objectionable in the vicinity of the Hospital. However, this wasxnot a bad case, and on their paying the costs of the prosecutions he would dismiss the charges, with the warning that the defendants behave more circumspectly in future.