MAN ASSAULTS WIFE.
ALSO A NAVAL PETTY OFFICER PEOHIBITION ORDER ISSUED. "I don't remember anything about it, but I will plead guilty," said Robert John Dias (26), who appeared at the Police Court this morning on charges of being disorderly while drunk in Queen Street on Monday and assaulting his wife, Ivy Ellen Dias, and Ernest Allen Grintil.
Mrs. Dias, who said she was separated from her husband, gave evidence .of the assault, which took place as she was coming away from Luna Park with her two children.
In respect of the other charge, SeniorSergeant Cummings said that Mr. Grintil was a chief petty officer of H.M.s. Dunedin.
"Accused was taking on a pretty hot customer in assaulting him," said the magistrate, Mr. E. C. Cutten.
Dias told the magistrate he had taken too much liquor and said that he would like to be prohibited.
He was convicted and discharged on the first and second charges, and on the third he was fined £1 and ordered to enter into a recognisance of £5 that he would keep the peace. The prohibition order was made by consent.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 305, 26 December 1928, Page 3
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