FRACAS AT DANCE
YOUTHS EXCHANGE BLOWS HENDERSON V. SWANSON When the Henderson boys go to dances at Swanson they never forget the old home town. Sometimes rivalry leads to blows, as was evident by the appearance of two youths, Albert Edward Butler and Ernest Frank Pratt, at the Police Court this morning, on a charge of disorderly behaviour at a dance at Swanson. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said the two youths w T ent to a dance at Swanson, where they got into an altercation with the local boys, and blows were exchanged. Mr. Hunt: Oh, a couple of larrikins who were looking for trouble, eh? “It was almost a free fight,” said the sub-inspector. “We cannot have this. The women and girls at these dances must be protected.” The constable who arrested them said they were ordinarily quite decent youths, though they were inclined to be larrikins. He had given them a severe talking to. “Fined 40s each,” said Mr. F. K. Hunt. “We have had several complaints about this sort of thing.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 636, 12 April 1929, Page 1
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172FRACAS AT DANCE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 636, 12 April 1929, Page 1
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