SERVICEMEN’S RIGHT OF ENTRY
HOUSEHOLDER CHARGED WITH ASSAULT CASE DISMISSED AS TRIVIAL [Pbk United Phess Association.j WELLINGTON, December 1. In a case involving the rights of City Council servicemen to enter houses the magistrate (Mr J. L. Stout) to-day dismissed as trivial a charge of assault brought against Grace Daphne King, a married woman. The Magistrate said that if corporation officials, could cut the power off outside’ a house in the event of a dispute about cutting it off at the switchboard they , should cut it off outside. _ It appeared that Dudley Tate, a serviceman, was instructed to collect arrears of lighting from the defendant, and on failing to do so he mounted a table in the house to cut off the power at the switchboard, whereupon the defendant rushed at him and knocked him off. Another serviceman who accompanied him, after relating his. version of the' altercation and assault, mentioned that they disconnected the power outside.
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Evening Star, Issue 23130, 2 December 1938, Page 7
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157SERVICEMEN’S RIGHT OF ENTRY Evening Star, Issue 23130, 2 December 1938, Page 7
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