FOOTPATH ADVERTISING

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 82, 3 October 1931, Page 15

FOOTPATH ADVERTISING

Foul- • men were fined- l°s each, by Mr. E. Page; S.M./, yesterday, -•'•' oil charges of unlawfully writing on the. footpath for advertising purposes. The defendants were James Forbes, William Aloxandor Thompson, Edmund. Hogan, and Norman Turner.. ~'i... ,': - ■ A" constable saw Forbes writing on the footpath in Cuba street. . .."We don't want " scabes/.camps.'',-Forbes denied writing; when questioliied :>b :y the constable, but while lie was talking-he' rubbed but the "final letter. «£ "scabes/ 1 remarking, "That:looks better."; : .'- • In the/.ca&c 'of the. three ptljer,;;aof endants it was alleged, that the word* two of them had written. .while toe other looked on were, uhemployeai Tuesdayr3 •p.m.. ,I?*spital. Aftor hearing; evidence, the, Magistrate said.lie thought:;the charge, had been.proved..: The constable had seen two'of the men bending'"over writing: oii the ground, ;which heitad been-byer^ before and found 'clear; " Tbci defendants tiad runaway, but wefe'over taken, arid at the police station it was seen that one of them . had on -his clothes.. . ■ '' " ' ''..'.''. ' ' "■'_ •_ ■ In.reply to the Magistrate, Sub-In" spector Lopclcll said that the Communists and unemployed i had been aggro'ssivo lately iii making themsblvcsac-. tiye. There was a. good ddaj of-writ-ing about the town,..aii(lfihb police had been looking out for it. It was ;giil^e an arranged plan to advortisb In'this way. \ .