YOUTH FINED
ELECTION MEETING SEQUEL
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.")
PALMERSTON N., This Day,
James Gordon Randle, aged 19, fireman, was fined £2 by Mr. E. P. Lawry, S.M., for behaving in a disorderly manner at a political meeting held by Mr. J, A, Nash in the Opera House on Thursday evening.
According to the police Randle was standing in the aisle with a number of others and kept interjecting. He was warned three times to stop and was then removed from the building.
In an explanation the defendant said that he was annoyed at what the speaker said about women and children.
Answering Inspector Cummings he admitted that he .was under voting age.
The Magistrate said that it was not a bad case.
Inspector Cummings: These young men have no vote, yet they go to meetings for the purpose of disturbing them.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 86, 8 October 1938, Page 11
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