HOODLUMS’ PRANK
FALSE FIRE ALARM
THREE YOUTHS FINED
For the next 12 weeks Roy Capel, Leonard Coggan and William Gibson, described at the Police Court to-day as hoodlums, will each be paying 10s into the State coffers.
They pleaded guilty to a charge ot giving a false alarm to the City Flra Brigade.
Sergeant Flanagan said that the alarm was given in the Ponsonby district on a Sunday afternoon. During the year 76 malicious false alarms had been given in that district.
Accused were fined £5 each and ordered to pay £l. Gibson was fined an additional £2 for using obscene lan t'■ age. The magistrate said that the fines could be paid at 10s a week.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 229, 16 December 1927, Page 1
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117HOODLUMS’ PRANK Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 229, 16 December 1927, Page 1
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