“SILENCE IN THE COURT!”
LABOURER'S LUNCH-TIME EXPERIENCE. Proceedings in the Auckland Police Court were going along quietly one morning tliis week when ah irrelevant remark from the spectators’ square, in a particularly husky voice, broke the thread of the evidence. “Bring that man up here,” ordered Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.AI. Three or four constables hastened to comply with the order, but they had some difficulty in sorting out the interrupter from the half-dozen men seated at the back. Eventually, after getting one wrong man, they enlisted the assistance of spectators, and sorted out a labourer, who had evidently just come in to put in his lunchhour on a comfortable seat, and with the prospect of entertainment. At the Alagistrate’s direction he was put in the prisoner’s room for half an hour, and was then let go with an admonition against any future interruption of court proceedings. Having thus had more spice to his lunch, than he had anticipated. the man got free again in time to be on his job again by one o’clock.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 141, 29 May 1920, Page 5
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