POLICE COURT QUIET
CELEBRATIONS RESULT IN FINES SHORT SITTING HELD The peace and quiet of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day was verified to some extent this morning »»hen the few cases heard at the Police Court, before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., were disposed of in a surprisingly brief space of time. Pleading not guilty to a charge of being disorderly while drunk in Broadway, Newmarket, on Christmas Eve, Leslie Walter Seagar, a stage hand, aged 25, told the court that the driver of the taxi in which he was in was over-charging him on a fare to Royal Oak, and he objected. Mr. Hunt: You were drunk and according to the constable you were using bad language. Accused: 1 was not exactly drunk, although I certainly had a few. Seagar was fned £l. Being drunk and using obscene language in Victoria Street on Christmas Eve was the charge against John Gray, aged 23. The sub-inspec-tor said that on three previous occt:sions Gray had been before the court for causing disturbances and he thought that, being such a young man, he should be prohibited from obtaining liquor. Mr. Hunt: What about a prohibition order ?
Gray: Yes. He was fined £1 on each of the two charges. Other minor charges were heard and fines ranged from 5s to £l.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 855, 26 December 1929, Page 1
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