DISPUTE ON WAHINE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 68, 13 December 1933, Page 11

DISPUTE ON WAHINE

Man Injured With Knife

WATERSIDER ARRESTED A dispute between two men on the Wahine at 8 a.m. yesterday ended with David Stewart, a watersider, of 4 Home Street, receiving a severe knife' wound on .the left arm. He was attended by the Free Ambulance and taken from the ship to the hospital. Arrested later in the morning, Hubert Frederick Hilton Shepherd, aged 52 years, watersider, of 33 Leighton Avenue, Lower Hutt, appeared before Mr. W, F. Stilwell, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday afternoon charged with assault so as to cause bodily harm. He-was remanded until to-day week, bail being fixed at £5O, with one surety for a similar amount. Mr. O. C. Mazengarb, who appeared for the accused, said that he was spoken of as one of the best men on the waterfront. With the exception of a short period, he had been employed by the Union Steam Ship Company In the one job since 1907. Yesterday morning on the Wahine a dispute had arisen; the accused had been struck on the head, and his opponent had received a wound on the arm with a knife which the accused was carrying. Senior-Sergeant Dempsey said that although he had not had an opportunity of becoming fully acquainted with the-details of the affray, he’Sad been informed that the accused was a very satisfactory citizen and one of the best men on the waterfront,