SEVEN DAYS FOR USING OBSCENE LANGUAGE
Two men were charged before Justices of the Peace in the Taupo Court on September 23 with using obscene language in the Taupo Billiard Rooms. They were Joseph Pluerty and Thomas Franeis Gosling. Constable R. McNaughton, prosecuting, stated that the accused entered the Billiard Booms about 8.15 p.m. and had been drinking. They acted in. a truculent manner and used obscene language, and 011 their refusing to leave when asked to do so by the proprietor the police had been called. Both men pleaded guilty. The Bench warned that such conduct would not be tolerated in Taupo. Accused were convicted and sentenced to seven days' imprisonment in Tongariro Prison. On September 15, John Copil Hopkins, alias John Charles Rooke-, alias James Ian McRae, aged 44, and Charles de la Cour, aged 46, appeared before the Court on charges of being idle and disorderly. For the prosecution it was stated that accused had been found at night without authority, first in the kitchen premises of the Spa Hotel, and then of Lake Yiew Private Hotel. Accused were convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment in Tongariro Prison.
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Taupo Times, Volume IV, Issue 192, 30 September 1955, Page 6
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192SEVEN DAYS FOR USING OBSCENE LANGUAGE Taupo Times, Volume IV, Issue 192, 30 September 1955, Page 6
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