LABOURER’S OUTBURST

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 547, 27 December 1928, Page 1

LABOURER’S OUTBURST

BIAS AGAINST “WOODBINES” GAOL AND A WARNING An apparently uncontrollable prejudice against Englishmen was responsible for Timothy Michael Moyniban, who was given a chance at the Police Court yesterday falling into the clutches of the law only a few hours after his discharge. Moynihan, a labourer, aged 23, pleaded n/t guilty this morning on a charge of using obscene language on the waterfront yesterday afternoon. An English engineer, who was sitting in a launch shelter, said that Moynihan came up to him and used vile language to him, upbraiding him as a “woodbine.” Moynihan was sure that the language was not half as bad as the police had said.

“Moynihan has been in Auckland only a few weeks,” said Sub-Inspector McCarthy, “but he has been before the Court three times. A sentence of seven days’ imprisonment was imposed, Mr. E. C. Cutten. S.M., warning Moynihan that he had better be careful, as he was “getting off the rails.”