HOODLUMS AND PROFANITY.

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1906, Page 1

HOODLUMS AND PROFANITY.

(To the Editor.) Si 1 ')—I wish you would kindly grant mo a little space in your valuable columns to bring under notice a matter that requires immediate attention on the part of the police. What I refer to is the foul and disguesting language that is nightly—and very often during the day—to be heard 'in the streets of Greymouth. No doubt this is m a large measure due to the undermanned state of the local police force. Any night in the week, and particularly on Saturday and Sunday nights, "curses loud and deep" arc to be hoard ! at any of the street corners of our ' town. It mostly emanates from des- I picable specimens of the hoodlum class, who suffer from the delusion that they are under the influence of liquor, but who in reality have im- 1 bibed to the enormous extent of pass- 1 ing a public-house door or seeing a ' cork lying in the gutter! They not! only bring discredit upon the well- I conducted hotels of Greymouth, but ' it is particularly annoying if a person happens to be passing these uncouth j mobs in female company, for which i occasions they appear to reserve their ' choicest epithets. I think if Sergeant! Egan could manage to spare a few of his men to lie in wait and catch a few of those shameless and brainless individuals, our worthy Magistrate (Mr Kenrick) could be relied upon to make an example of (hem. In conclusion I would* point out to the police that the favorite haunt of the lurid-tongued fraternity ■ appears to, be the intersection of Tai- ‘ nui and Mackay Streets, and the dark spot round the Gilmer corner.—Yours, , etc., ‘ DISGUSTED.