CITY POLICE COURT
Monday, February • (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) Drunkenness Michael Kitchen, of Port Chalmers, a statutory first offender charged with drunkenness, was fined 20s. Wharf Workers’ Lapse When George Air, a wharf labourer, and Sydney John Welsh, a waterside worker, were arrested oh charges of using obscene language and casting offensive matter in Frederick street, they had £23 and £32 respectively in their possession. They explained in court that they had been saving up to pay their income tax this week. They were both doubtful how to plea; for they stated that they could remember little of ;what had happened.—After hearing the police evidence and a report on the men’s good record in the past, the magistrate imposed in each case a fine of 40s on the charge of casting offensive matter, but did not enter a conviction on the major charge. -
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24837, 10 February 1942, Page 6
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