A tine of £5 was inflicted on a Maori labourer, Patrick Walker, aged 19, in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, for assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty. Accused was drinking with a party near a dance hall on Saturday night. When the constable accosted them, Walker lilt him with a bottle and ran away. Jail was the usual penalty for this type of offence, said Mr. Stout, S.M., in imposing the fine. A lecture will be given in Nimmo’s Hall, Wellington, tonight, at 8 o’clock >by Sister L. Evans, Australia, dietitian, psychoanalyst and author, on “Errors in Everyday'Diet.” Further lectures will be given by Sister Evans tomorrow and Thursday nights.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 125, 22 February 1944, Page 3
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