MIDNIGHT MUSIC
FOUR YOUTHS BEFORE COURT all charges dismissed The annoyance to sick people when husky young voices carolled through the early hours of the morning was stressed by Mr. I’. K. Hunt, S.M., at file Police Court this morning, when Frederick William Wyatt, Albert Edward Phillips. Charles Spencer Smith Jack Holmes and Eric Cheverton Bourne were charged with behaving in a disorderly manner in the Great North Road on January- 26. Mr Noble appeared for Holmes and - ske<i for an adjournment of a week, as defendant was away at a military camp. Mr. Lovegrove appeared for the other four \-ouths. Two of them, he said had admitted singing, but the other two had not joined them. Tliey were all respectable boys and had been at The J con‘stable. who accosted the five defendants, gave the time of the tirident as 12.15 a.m. He had heard the singing twyo blocks away Phillips Vnd Bourne did not appear to be sing?ng On the way to the police station defendants admitted they had given false names and addresses. The charges against all four defendants were dismissed, but Wyatt and Smith were ordered to pay costs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 909, 28 February 1930, Page 1
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193MIDNIGHT MUSIC Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 909, 28 February 1930, Page 1
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