TROUBLE AT A DANCE
GANG OF LARRIKINS U’bb Umtfo I’kkss Association.] WELLINGTON, June 13. Norman Allan Miller, aged eighteen, and Joseph Mallia, aged nineteen, were charged with assaulting a man (name unknown) and with resisting the police. They were at a dance, and when the police arrived they had a man on the floor punching him. They _ also resisted the constables. The police stated that the youths had caused trouble at_a dance ball on previous occasions. Miller was described as a hoodlum and leader of a gang of larrikucs. He did very little work. The magistrate (Mr Pago) said ho was half inclined to send tho accused to gaol, but as they wore young ho would inflict lines. Miller was fined £7 and Mallia £3, in default seven clays’ imprisonment.
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Evening Star, Issue 19891, 13 June 1928, Page 9
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130TROUBLE AT A DANCE Evening Star, Issue 19891, 13 June 1928, Page 9
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