USE OF BAD LANGUAGE
1 MAGISTRATES INFLICT Sf.VERE PENALTIES.' Bj Telenranh—Pres« Association. Auckland, December 6. Tho use of obscene language in public streets, trains, mid trains is looked won by Mr. Poynton, S.M., as a serious offence, and one that must be firmly dealt with. He mentioned his feelings 011 the subject to-day, when a man irorn tho King Country, named Duncan Kennedy (51) admitted having been drunk in the Wellington express on Sunday morning, and having used obscene language. Accused was fined .£2O, in default two months' imprisonment. Another man, John Grenchy (52), who admitted having used obscene language in Customs Street when lie was drunk, was filled JEIO, ill default one month's imprisonment.
t Christchurch, December 6. A young man, John Hopwood, was charged to-day with drunkenness, and ivlrii using obscene language at the door of Fullers' Opera House ou Saturday night. Mr. Jl'Carthy, S.M., sentenced Hopwood to 0110 month's imprisonment with hard labour for the use of the bad language, remarking that it was tho old story of the freedom of the British subject to get drunk and annoy everybody else.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 62, 7 December 1920, Page 8
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184USE OF BAD LANGUAGE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 62, 7 December 1920, Page 8
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