IDLE AND DISORDERLY
TWO YOUTHS FINED. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 10. William Alexander Miller, aged 19, and Norman Allen Miller, aged 164, appeared to-day at the Magistrate’s Court for sentence on charges of being disorderly while drunk and of assaulting and resisting a constable. The elder also admitted yesterday damaging a constable’s false teeth, and the other with damaging his overcoat. The offences arose out of the arrest of the youths in Manners street on Wednesday night, when returning in a noisy, drunken state from a wedding breakfast. “The Probation Officer’s report shows that this is not the first occasion on which you have indulged in liquor,” said the Magistrate. “You can easily see what drinking and resisting a constable leads to and results in and if you find liquor has an effect in making you quarrelsome you should leave it alone.” Both were convicted and discharged for being disorderly while drunk and were fined £1 each, in default 48 hours. For assaulting and resisting they were ordered to pay the damage in respect to the teeth and uniform. The younger boy has also to pay for breaking a pane of glass in the Police Station. The suppression of their names was refused.
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Southland Times, Issue 20201, 11 June 1927, Page 8
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205IDLE AND DISORDERLY Southland Times, Issue 20201, 11 June 1927, Page 8
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