Offender Before Court.
At a sitting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court this morning Seddon A. Bregman was convicted and discharged on a charge of drunkenness and fined 10s for having cast offensive matter in Masterton on August 4. The defendant was arrested in Chapel Street yesterday afternoon by Constable R. J. Berry.
The sergeant was drilling a batch of recruits, and saw that one of them was marching out of step. The sergeant, being one of the sarcastic sort, went up to the man and said: “Do you know they are all out of step except you?” “What?” asked the recruit innocently. “I said they are all out of step except you,” repeated the sergeant, thoroughly angry now. “Well,” was the retort, “I can’t do anything about it. It’s your job to tell them—you're in charge.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1941, Page 4
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184Offender Before Court. Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1941, Page 4
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