GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Cambridge, Last Night. A local tradesman named Thomas F. Richards was fined £1 and £1 14s costs at the Cambridge Court to-day for using obscene language towards the Mayor, Mr. Geo. Dickinson. Richards wanted a license for a new hall, for a picture entertainment, but the Borough Council withheld the license pending legal requirements. Thinking that the Council did not want an opposition hall to their. Town Hall, Mr. Richards then swore at the Mayor in the street. The Mayor explained that he was not vindictive, and the action was simply to protect himself in his public capacity as a magistrate. He remarked that public men required to be protected.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 297, 12 June 1912, Page 5
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115GENERAL TELEGRAMS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 297, 12 June 1912, Page 5
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