NOT DONE!

NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 5

NOT DONE!

Keeping Cool— vNew Style POLIGEgSTEP IN (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auck- ■ land Rep.) Auckjand seems to be setting the fashion m birthday suits for men. It was Edwin Lloyd who made the first appearance so attired. Wearing nothing but a worried look, Edwin startled the natives of Alma Street, Newmarket, when he paraded along the verandah of his house. - A CONSTABLE soon arrived to tell ** Edwin that, although, flappers may discard their stockings before joining the big parade m Queen Street m the afternoon, men of fifty-six years of age may not stage a Garden of Eden scene on their own m full view of their neighbors. . The old man, when he appeared m court, stated that "perhaps" he had been walking m his sleep, but neighbors stated that he had been a nuisance m the district through drinking heavily, and Magistrate McKean decided to suspend sentence for a week to allow him to recover. Unlike the old . man, the next to stage an unconventional appearance on the public stage, a seaman named Henry Jones, preferred* the wharf to the verandah on which to strut. Crowd Gathers "Boots off and a fair go," was Henry's motto; and there on the wharf for all to see Henry threw his clothing to the four winds, and over the side he went for a swim around the harbor. Channel swimmers had nothing on him, and a powerful stroke soon took him out among the ferry boats. But another leader of fashion was to be disappointed, and Henry "swore like a trooper" when the police interfered. "I can't say nothing," was all Henry could mutter when asked to explain his behavior. But the sub-inspector had a good deal to say. » . "He was' swimming, around among the ferry boats, and the marvel is that he was not killed, but evidently it is impossible to drown him," he said. The police hired a launch and went out to where he was disporting himr self m the water, while a large crowd collected on the waterfront. A constable who had been .m the rescue party said that Jones had sworn considerably when an attempt was made to pull him out of the sea. When the constable was shown the chargesheet containing the words said to have been used, and was asked if he had heard the bad language, he smiled. "Oh, yes, he used those, words several times, and more than ; that," he said. The bathe, coupled with the. use of the language, cost Henry £4, and 9/9 expenses were added to the total before he left the court. , The treatment meted out to those two members of the No More Clothes League is hardly encouraging for the overheated city dweller who may have thought of such methods of keeping cool* ' ■