WANTED TO FIGHT
ROISTERER WHO DEFIED CONSTABLE CONDUCT COSTS £2 “I told him to go home, so he took off his coat and wanted to fight me/’ said Constable Gawler when William Preston was charged at the Police Court this morning with being disorderly while drunk in Karangahape Road. Preston, a labourer, aged 40, did not appear, having been bailed in one surety of £lO. li was 6.10 p.m. on Saturday when ha had arrested Preston, according to Constable Gawler. The man had then been staggering about and hailing peoplo whom he did not know. Sub-Inspector McCarthy: What is he? Constable Gawler: He is a bit of a drunken waster as far as I can see. Mr. F. IC. Hunt, S.M.: Well, he found someone to put up a bond of £lO for li im Preston was fined £2, in default seven days’ imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 787, 7 October 1929, Page 1
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144WANTED TO FIGHT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 787, 7 October 1929, Page 1
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