“MIGHT BE ARMY PRACTICE”
LANGUAGE OF IMPERIAL OFFICER. SEQUEL TO MOTORING ACCIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Sept. 6. Arising out of an accident on the night of August 18, when a car overturned on Hill’s Road, Mairehau, and two peoplq were injured, including a young woman, Robert Parker Jervis, an English army captain, was charged with obstructing the police and using obscene language in Kilmore Street and’ using indecent language on Hill’s Road. He pleaded guilty. His address was given as care of Orbell, Pentlow Estate, Timaru.
Fines totalling £4 were imposed by the magistrate, Mr. E. Mosley, who said that for a man of defendant’s age and obvious education, it - was most objectionable language. "It might be the practice in the army to use it—l don’t know—but no gentleman would use it,” said the magistrate.
In connection with the same circumstances, Kenneth Hugh Hargreaves, of Geraldine, charged with using insulting language at the Christchurch public hospital, pleaded guilty and was fined £2. The magistrate said to Hargreaves: “It is almost impossible to conceive how language like that can be used by a man like you. Even if you were excited that is no excuse; it shows that some things are only skin deep.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1934, Page 9
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