FINED FOR SWEARING
People iii Lambton Quay near the Waring Taylor 'intersection yesterday* morning were startled: toy the-strange behaviour of a man who was shouting obscene language in a voice that could be heard a hundred yardjj away. • He was arrested by Detective F. Hayhurst and .Hi is morning was fined £2,"in. default fourteen days' imprisonment, by !Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., when he pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to using obscene language in Lamb'lon Quay. . . , Ho wan Willinm Jolm ILibcii, aged 47, a labourer, and ho had nothing to say in reply to: the charge. ■ Detective-Sergeant T. Y. Ilnll said that the-accused had been before the Court previously for exactly similar conduct, and that- he. had been sober at the time of the present offence.
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Evening Post, Issue 6, 8 January 1935, Page 9
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127FINED FOR SWEARING Evening Post, Issue 6, 8 January 1935, Page 9
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