SERGEANT ABUSED
CIVILIAN BEFORE COURT PUBLIC APOLOGY MADE The sequel to an incident in Victoria Street on January 27 in which a civilian approached an army lorry and abused a sergeant of military ' police was heard in the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, today when Hector Willcocks, labourer, of Hamilton was charged before Mr S. L. Paterson S. M. f with using insulting language in a public place. He pleaded guilty. “This is an unusual case and one that needs to be dealt with firmly,” said Senior-Sergeant G. H. Lambert. “The accused approached a lorry in which soldiers were preparing to return to camp and called out to the sergeant of military police, ’Yes, take them back to camp, you scabs.’ It had been an extraordinary action, said the senior-sergeant, and Willcocks now realised the foolishness of it.”
Asked by the magistrate to make a public apology to the sergeant concerned, who was in Court, Willcocks compiled. He was also fined 10c.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21033, 8 February 1940, Page 6
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