BUMPED AGAINST CONSTABLE AND USED OBSCENE LANGUAGE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17771, 15 February 1926, Page 6

BUMPED AGAINST CONSTABLE AND USED OBSCENE LANGUAGE.

FINED £5 FOR SWEARING; 20, - FOR DRUNKENNESS

“Personally, T think a man who use.; such language as this does not deserve a fine: he really ought to have. gaol. A man must not think that when he gets drunk he can use bad language. I want that to be known.”

These were the remarks of Mr H. F. Herbert, J.P., who with Mr P. L. Davies, J.P., sat on the Bench at the Magistrate's Court this morning. They imposed a line of 20s and costs, and £5, in default seven days’ imprisonment. on a young married man named Lewis M’Gregor, who pleaded guilty to having been found drunk and with having used obsene language in Lincoln Road. Addington, on Saturday evening last.

Senior-Sergeant Roach said accused was cycling along Lincoln Road -when he collided with Constable M'Kay. The constable told him to be more careful, and then accused made use of the words complained of and was arrested. Mr Twyneham, who appeared for accused. said he was a hard-working, respectable. man, and was always very quiet unless he took a few drinks. He had been to the trots at Addington and. having had a small win, he had been celebrating with a few friends. Accused thought he had been pushed off his cycle, but he realised his mistake afterwards. He had never been in anv trouble before, and had a wife and young child. He was in a Government position and was a well-known and respectable man. a good father and husband. Counsel asked that he be dealt, with leniently, and that his name be suppressed because it might affect his position, and that would mean loss of support for his wife and child. It was then that Mr Herbert made the observations quoted above.