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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12887, 13 June 1936, Page 9

“Anyone learning a foreign language learus the bad words first, was the way in which a ship s cook, giving evidence in the Napier Police Court recently, explained an example of 'Chinese he had used against a. Chinese defendant. Later ifi the proceedings defendant told the interpreter what had been said to him, but. the latter refused to repeat it- He finally compromised bv writing it down for the defending solicitor, who handed it to the magistrate with the comment : “It must be conceded that they are a fairly catholic indictment.” The witness had explained that 'lie knew the words were swearing, hut said he did not know what - they meant. While she uas visiting friends a few streets away from her home, Mrs dames Gough, aged'64, of Bradford street; - Caerphilly, collapsed and died. Sho had been laughing heartily daring a conversation a few minutes before being taken ill. - . ; : ' . ' . ...