BARMAN ASSAULTED AT RIWAKA
MAN FINED £7/10/(New Zeaiana Press Association) NELSON, March 20. Refused service in the Riwaka Hotel yesterday afternoon, Thomas George, aged 21, a seasonal worker from the Cook Islands, expressed his resentment by assaulting the licensee’s father, John Walter Baxter. In the Motueka Magistrate’s Court this morning, George pleaded guilty before Messrs H. H. Thompson and R. P. Rowling. Justices of the Peace, to a charge of assault. He was fined £7 10s. Constable A. Williams said that because of George's unruly conduct in the bar of the hotel. Mr Baxter had refused to serve him. George then grabbed Mr Baxter by the shirt and aimed blows at him. In the struggle, Mr Baxter’s shirt had been almost torn off his back. George had then hurled a glass at Mr Baxter and swept other glasses off the bar counter. Because of his youth and the fact that it was his first offence the position would be met by a fine, said the Bench, but any further charge of a similar nature would mean imprisonment.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27924, 22 March 1956, Page 15
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