Emphatic, Not Abusive
IP.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Though Mr J. H. S.M., was taught that a certain expletive was “just a plain swear word,” he held today that it was capable of two meanings—one abusive arid the other merely emphatic. He dismissed two charges —one under the taxi regulations of failing to discharge a taxi driver’s duties in an orderly way and one of abusive language ■ against Eric Herbert Jordan, aged 25, a taxi-driver. It was alleged that after his taxi- had been kept waiting by a woman passenger, Jordan used a certain word abusively. Later she told him to drive to the police station, which he did. Jordan, in evidence, said he was “a bit hot under the collar.” When the woman asked him if he was angry he said, “I’ve—good cause to be.” Mr Luxford dismissed the first charge because it was invalid under the particular regulations and the second because Jordan had used the word emphatically, rather than abusively.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19481008.2.45
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 8 October 1948, Page 5
Word Count
162Emphatic, Not Abusive Greymouth Evening Star, 8 October 1948, Page 5
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in