“THE DOUBLE B”

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1927, 28 October 1926, Page 5

“THE DOUBLE B”

HELD TO BE INDECENT LANGUAGE.

“ The language used in this case, Your Worship, is generally known as t%! ‘ double B ’ type, an'd a large number of people do noit consider ilt to b'e indecent at all—H mean they do not consider the first ‘B of the; ‘ ‘double B ’ to be so.. As a matter of .fact, George Bernard Shaw, Michael At Hen, Eugene O’Neill, and many cither leading writers of the present clay use it frequently in their novels and books. In Wellington at the present time W-? also have a play where the first B of the ‘ doable B ’ is used, so I suggest it cannot .be a very indecent adjed'ivi?, otherwise it would 'be banned under the Adt,” said Mr B. J. Dolan in Ithe Magistrate’s Court at Wellington this week, when asking for leniency on 'behalf of lEdward Joseph Burgin, aged 59 years, who appeared l on charges of behaving in a threatening manner in Courtenay Place, using indecent language, and, resisting a constable in the executipn of his dulty. The magistrate (Mr J. H. 'Salmon, S M.), in fining accused £1 on the first charge and £2 on each of the remaining charges, sltate'd' that the first B could not be regarded as very serious or indecent; (tltei word, in 'his opinion, was much more offensive It.han it was qibsdene.