LIVELY DANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 352, 12 May 1928, Page 13

LIVELY DANCE

CLOAKROOM ROW “TWO YOUNG BLACKGUARDS” (Special to THE SUN) NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. “You two have been behaving like a pair of young blackguards, and making yourselves a perfect nuisance,” said Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M,, in the Waitara Court today, to two young men charged with assault. Norman Simon McGregor and Albert Kapinga were charged with assaulting and threatening Ralph Drake Fugle and Howard Samuel Fugle at a dance at Ureti on March 31. According to Ralph Fugle, a disturbance began in the men’s dressing room. H© said McGregor called him a cur, and wanted him to fight. Some men intervened and took McGregor out. About 20 minutes later he returned and struck witness. McGregor was taken out again. Kapinga was urging McGregor on. Howard Samuel Fugl© said when they had left the hall Kapinga came up behind and hit him on the jaw. Kapinga threatened to hit him again. Frederick L. Boyes, a justice of the peace, said after the first disturbance, he warned all that any further trouble would be reported. He had just left the hall when he heard more noise in the men’s dressing room, to which he returned and repeated his warnings, telling accused to leave. The scene was a disgraceful one for a dance. McGregor was very drunk and Kapinga had had enough drink to make him very quarrelsome. “It was evidently a lively

dance,” said the magistrate. Each offender was fined £ 5 on the assault charge, and the fine and costs on the second charge amounted to another £5. The magistrate would not grant time in which to pay.