MINE MANAGER ASSAULTED
MAGISTRATE TAKES SERIOUS VIEW. * By Telegraph- —Press Association. Christchurch, September 9. A case of interest to the mining industry was heard at the Darfield Magistrate’s Court, when David M Queen a miner, was sentenced to a month s imprisonment for assaulting David Kane, mine manager at Homebush. The evidence showed that after instructionshad been given that all coal placed on the trucks must be free of dirt or slack, the manager was informed that M Queens truck contained dirt. M'Queen resented the accusation, and subsequently assaulted the manager. In defence accused said that the manager attacked him with an iron bar. The Magistrate said that he took a very serious view of the assault, for, apart from the brutality of the act, the mine manager’s authority must bo upheld. Accused had received no provocation for the attack.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 298, 10 September 1921, Page 7
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