BAD LANGUAGE ON TRAIN.

Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16625, 22 October 1925, Page 5

BAD LANGUAGE ON TRAIN.

OHAKUNE BARBER. FINED £lo'. Travellers on the New Zealand rail ways are not allowed to ffnnoy anti disturb other passengers by using ob scene language towards them. Such behaviour on the-- Auckland Wellington express on Monday cost ? middle-aged man, Rodger Midglev Plummer, a barber from Ohakune, £l( in the Hamilton Police Court. Ha< any women been in the carriage wliei the offence was committed, accuset was told by Mr. H, A. Young, S.M. he WQuld have sent him to gaol. Senior-Sergeant Sweeney said thal accused boarded the second Welling ton express at Auckland. To eight Fijians in a carriage, who were goinf to the Dunedin Exhibition, accuset used filthy language questioning theii legitimacy. A European passengei was also subjected to accused’s insulting remarks. Accused had two bottle: of whisky in his possession. Thert were no women or children in th< carriage. The guard reported accuser to the police mi the train arriving ai Frankton. For using obscene language accuset was fined £lO and ordered to pav witnesses’ expenses, totalling £l/8// Plummer was convicted and discharged on a charge of behaving in a violen and offensive manner towards passen gers.