"NECKING"
LEARNED JU-DGES PUZZLED OVER MODERN SLANG TERMS. In the Full Court to-day three learned Judges, hot under horse-hair wigs, were puzzled over modern methods of courting, which arose during an affiliation prohibition. When Mr. F. C. Stephen mentioned certain terms of affection, Mr. Justice James exclaimed: "That's called 'netting'."
The Chief Justice (Sir Philip .Street): "I don't know much about it, but I thought that was 'spb'oning'." Mr. Justice Halse Rogers (a younger Judge). "Ts it not known as 'necking'?" A little later, the Chief Justice remarked, "There is no doubt that today -much greater freedom is allowed to young men and to young women than a couple of generations ago. What may then have been considered improper appears to be sanctioned to-day. "In, the days of the qhaperonje, -vonug-^cls-were not allowed the free-
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 153, 20 February 1932, Page 2
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