KISSING IN PUBLIC
MAGISTItATH’S . IiIJTING NOT OFFENSIVE! UFIIAVJOUR SIYDNEY, Aug. 24.—-Air. -Sutherland, S.Mv, ruled at the Central Police Court yesterday that Hie behaviour of a man and a woman wlio Avere kissing in public did not constitute offensive behaviour . , The decision was given in a case he dismissed of a charge of offensive behaviour against Sydney Partridge, aged 41, labourer, and '•Vera AVilliams, aged 33, domestic, Ajho had pleaded guilty. < “They have pleaded guilty to offensive behaviour.* I can see nothing offensive in it,” the magistrate saidi. Constables Thomas said that on August 22 he suav Partridge and Miss Williams kissing in tlie dooiuvay of a wine saloon in Oxford street. They Avere swaying about, slightly under the influence of intoxicating liquor.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 233, 13 September 1939, Page 4
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122KISSING IN PUBLIC Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 233, 13 September 1939, Page 4
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