FAMILIES' SQUABBLE.
SEQUEL HEARD IN COURT,
PAHI FARMER CONVICTED.
(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.)
DARGAV1 T LE, Wednesday
A squabble between the Stanaway* and the Skeltons at I'ahi was followed by a series of charpes and countercharges, which were heard by Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., in the Police Court at Maungaturoto.
The police charged Thomas Edward Wath Skelton, farmer, with having assaulted Frederick James Stanaway, bushman of Mamaku, and with having used bad language. They also charged Alfred Skelton, the son of Thomas Edward, with having assaulted Frederick James Stanaway by striking him with a stone.
Thomas E. W. Skelton charged Frederick James Stanaway with having assaulted him by kicking him on the thigh, and also charged Charles George Stanaway with having used insulting and provoking language to incite Thomas Skelton to commit a breach of the peace, and he asked that Charles Georpo Stanaway be bound over to keep the peace. His Worship convicted Thomas Edward Wath Skelton on the eharpe of having assaulted Frederick James Stanaway, and bound him over in a surety of £50 to keep the peace and ordered him to pay £4 10/ eost3.
All the other charges were dismissed
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 28, 2 February 1928, Page 22
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