INCIDENT AFTER DANCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21401, 27 January 1933, Page 11

INCIDENT AFTER DANCE

BEHAVIOUR IN A BUS YOUNG MAN FINED £lO [ FROM CUR ; OWN CORRESPONDENT] PUKEKOHE, Thursday "It is a pity that others who were associated with this young man in the bus that night have not been prosecuted also," said Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Pukekohe Police Court, when Gordon Reynolds, aged 20, appeared on charges of having used obscene language, behaved in a disorderly manner, assaulted a bus-driver, Harold Green, and damaged a bus by breaking a window. "Since I have been on the Bench I have not heard of anything so disgraceful," the magistrate added. Harold Green said he was the driver of a bus that had conveyed people from Pukekohe to a dance at Patumahoe recently. Shortly after leaving the Patumahoe dance hall at midnight, a number of young men had commenced to sing and use obscene language. When Pukekohe was reached witness heard Reynolds use obscene languago and he spoke to him about it. Accused resented being spoken to and caught hold of witness' arm and tried to drag him from the driver's seat. Accused had been under the influence of liquor when he left the dance hall, but did not-appear intoxicated when witness spoke to him. There were young women in the bus, and they were annoyed by the behaviour that had occurred. A window in the bus had been broken during the trouble with Reynolds. For using obscene language accused was find £lO. He was convicted and ordered to pay costs on the charges of disorderly behaviour and assault. The charge of damaging the bus window was dismissed.