DISORDERLY GIRLS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 3

DISORDERLY GIRLS

FOUR APPEAR IN COURT

Four young girls who were charged with being idle and disorderly persons with insufficient lawful means of support w6re convicted by Mir. J. L. Stout, S.M.. in the Magistrate's Court today and remanded until tomorrow for sentence. They were Kathleen Mavis McGregor, aged 21, a machinist, who was also convicted and discharged for drunkenness, Monica Hansen, aged 17. a housemaid, Anne Rosemond, aged 19, a waitress, and, Marjory Evaline Swinburne, aged 19, a waitress, who was also convicted and discharged for drunkenness.

Two other girls, one a tailoress, aged 22, the other a tailoress, aged 24, who were charged with a first offence of drunkenness and did not appear, were each fined 10s.

Kathleen McGregor pleaded guilty to both charges against her. SeniorSergeant T. Canipagnolo said that she was taken -into custody at 12.20 a.m. yesterday. She was drunk. She had been living a loose, immoral, life around the city. She was suffering from a bad disease and her attendance at the clinic had been very irregular. She had also been living with Chinese.

The senior-sergeant said, that Monica Hansen and Anne Rosemond were taken into custody at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday. The 3' were hanging.around a place of amusement in Dixon Street in an intoxicated condition. For some time they had done little or no work, but had been running round with servicemen, and both had been found at 12.30 one. morning with two soldiers in a room in a house if ill repute. They had been under police, observation for some time.

Both pleaded guilty to the oft'ehce, but after hearing the senior-sergeant Hansen said that he had "got the facts a bit wrong" and she would not plead guilty to that. Some of the statements were right, but not all of them. "I have means of support," said Marjory Swinburne when she was charged with being idle and disorderly, but she admitted the charge of drunkenness.

Evidence was given by the police that she had been arrested in Cuba Street, considerably under the influence of liquor, at 12.45 a.m. today. She was in the habit of frequenting the streets wi,th servicemen, generally more or less under the influence of liquor., and she lived in a notorious house of ill repute in Willis Street that had been declared out of bounds for servicemen. In a statement to the police she s&id she worked part-time in a cafe for 25s a week, and she said .she knew she had not behaved herself as she ought to, but if given the opportunity she would obtain more regular employment. The Magistrate said he would remand all the accused to get a report on them from the Probation Officer.