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SCENE AT PICTURE THEATRE HUSBAND AND WIFE DISAGREE. George Wilson Pocklington, a shoemaker, aged 51 years, and his wife visited a picture theatre on a recent evening. Wheh requested to buy the tickets by his spouse Pocklington told his helpmate to get them herself, and said so in a colourful flow of language, within the hearing of a number of shocked feminine picturegoers. Before Messrs A. Watenvorth and J. A. McGrath, J.P.ds, in the Police Court on Saturday morning Pocklington was convicted on a charge of using indecent language and was fined £l, three days 7 imprisonment being fixed, jn
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 11
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102INDECENT LANGUAGE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 11
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