SOLDIERS INSULTED
INCIDENTS AT DUNEDIN. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, December 3. “If the police could sheet home the offence against these individuals who insult these men and the King’s uniform, it would be a most Serious matter for them,” said the Magistrate (Mr. Bartholomew), when it was staled that there were certain individuals who threw off at soldiers in uniform when off duty. The comment arose when two soldiers were charged with assault and using indecent language. The police stated that the men were at a piecart when insulted by a man who threw off at them for being in uniform. There were hoodlums about the streets, who frequently threw off at soldiers. _ j q The men’s officer told the Court he had been twice insulted, himself. The Magistrate, dismissing the charges, suppressed the defendants’ names.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1940, Page 5
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