When a youth was charged in the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday with common assault on a girl, it was admitted that he had remarked to her: “You have nice legs, Miss.’’ Mr W. J. Treadwell, for the youth, observed that in these enlightened days there was no fault in admiring a nice pair of legs, but accused should have kept the remark to himself. The offence of clasping the girl around the waist and repeating the remark had taken place at 11 o’clock in the morning and not at night, when it would have been more serious,
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Shannon News, 4 May 1928, Page 3
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