DISORDERLY CONDUCT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5067, 20 December 1926, Page 2

DISORDERLY CONDUCT.

TROUBLE ON PAEROA STATION.

OFFENDERS’ NAMES SUPPRESSED.

Two young men appeared before Messrs W- Forrest and B. Gwilliam, J’s.P., at the local Police Court this morning upon charges, of diunkenness and disorderly behaviour on the Paeroa railway station on Saturday night, and one of the defendants had a,n additional charge of using obs,ene language within the hearing of passers-by vicusly known against either defendguilty were entered on all counts.

In statinng that nothing wa,s previously known agains either defendant, Constable McClinchy said that both Were passengers on the train from Thames on Saturday night, and had got off at Paeroa and entered into an argument with some other men. whose conduct was equally as bad as t,hc defendants’, but who hM escaped.

Both defendants were convicted and fined £l. in default 14 days’ gaol. In regard to the obscene language charge Mr Forrest remarked that the words used were disgusting in the extreme and could not be overlooked. ' Mr Gwilliam stated that hajd the language, complajiied of been used in. a railway carriage .the Bench would have ordered a substantial tqrm of imprisonment. In view of t,he excited state of the defendant at the time, and his previous good charafeter, he would be convicted and fined £3, in default one month’s imprisonment. The defendant, appealed ,to the Bench on behalf of his mate and. himself for suppression of their names. Both. Justices expressed their disapproval of suppressing the names df offenders. As they ha.d both been very foolish, and had expressed sorrow and apologised for their actions, a special concession would he made, in their casfis. The Bench thereupon ordered the suppression of both names.