KISSING IN PUBLIC
MAGISTRATE’S RULING
NOT OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOR
SYDNEY, Aug. 24,
Mr. Sutherland, S.M., ruled at the Central. Police Court yesterday that the behaviour of a man and a women who were kissing in public did not constitute offensive behaviour. The decision was given in a case he dismissed of a charge of offensive behaviour against Sydney Partridge, aged 41, labourer, and Vera Williams, aged 33, domestic, who had pleaded guilty. “They have pleaded guilty to offensive behaviour. I can see nothing offensive in it,” the magistrate said. Constable Thomas said that on August 22 he saw Partridge and Miss Williams kissing in the doorway of a wine saloon in Oxford street. They were swaying about, slightly under the influence of intoxicating liquor.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20031, 1 September 1939, Page 13
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