LOUD PEDAL ?

NZ Truth, Issue 1182, 26 July 1928, Page 5

LOUD PEDAL ?

— — • ♦■' ' — Lads Were Hammering It Out* M Right (From "N.Z. Truth's" Waihi R_p.) ' Providing syncopation with a hammer on the floor of St. Joseph's , Hall, Waihi, during the progress of a dancer led to^wo yoking men named Thomas Moralee and Kenneth s William Birchall appearing before the- Waihi Magistrate's Court, charged with disorderly behavior. A FURTHER charge of using indecent language was preferred .against Birchall. Birchall, armed with a hammer, was rapping out an unmusical accompaniment to the instruments while Moralee, looked on. When as requested by one of the dance officials to make themselves • scarce, Moralee told the official to get out of it and Birchall employed adjectives that were more forcible than polite. A drunken man, like a horse, can often be led where he cannot be driven, and so it, was with Moralee and Birchall. . ,' Another yourtg fellow jnamed Ted . Trembath managed to induce them, by gentle persuasion, to leave the hall, *vhere the somewhat imperative request of Donald Henderson failed. As the case was. by no means a. vicious orife, Magistrate Paterson dismissed the charge of disorderly behavior, but fined Birchall £1. and costs for drawing top carelessly Iron, his vocabulary, -> \V,