INDECENT LANGUAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1939, Page 7

INDECENT LANGUAGE

FINE OF £2 IMPOSED. On a charge of using indecent language in a public place —Lincoln Road —Ernest Alfred .Eastwood, butcher’s assistant, was fined £2 and costs by Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M.. in the Masterton Magistrate’s Court this morning. The accused pleaded guilty and elected tc be dealt with summarily.. Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett, said that at 11.30 p.m. on October 19. when Constable Downes was on duty in Queen Street, he saw defendant sitting in a car and had reason to suspect his condition in regard to sobriety. Ihe constable told him to get out of the car, and still not being satisfied with defendant's condition, invited him tc the police station for the purposes of an examination. When getting out oi the car the defendant made use of an expression similar to that in the chaige and when coming along Lincoln Road he made use of the language complained of. Dr Forsyth examined defendant and was of the opinion that although defendant showed signs of having had alcohol he was fit to drive a car. The Magistrate, in imposing a fine, said the language used was disgraceful and if there had been any women about he would have sent the accused gaol without the option.