BAD LANGUAGE
MAGISTERIAL REBUKE. [PER press association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September G. Arising out of an accident on the night of August 18, when a car overturned in Hills Road, Mairehau, and two people were injured, including a young woman, Robert Parker Jervis, an English Army captain was charged with obstructing the police and using obscene language in Kilmore Street, and using indecent, language in Hills Road. He pleaded guilty. His address I was given as care of the Orbell Pent- , low Estate, Timaru. Fines totalling ;£4 were imposed. | Magistrate Mosley said that for a [ man of defendant’s age and obvious j education it was most objectionable language. “It might be the practice in the Army to use it. I don’t know. But no gentleman would use it,” said the Magistrate. I In connection with the same circumstances. Kenneth Hugh Hargreaves of Geraldine, was charged with using insulting language at the Christchurch Public Hospital. He pleaded guilty and was fined £2.
The Magistrate said to Hargreaves: It is almost impossible to conceive how language like that can be used by a man like you. Even if you were excited, that is no excuse. It shows some things are only skin deep.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 September 1934, Page 12
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199BAD LANGUAGE Greymouth Evening Star, 6 September 1934, Page 12
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