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Grey River Argus, 17 August 1934, Page 7

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YOUTH S ASSAULT. — (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 16. Before Magistrate Mosley, to-day Irevor Lyall Evans was charged with assaulting William George Hill, manager of the Self Ile’p store. Beckenham, so as to cause him actual bodily harm. Accused was described us a grocer’s assistant, aged 19, not 17, us staled when a rresled last week. 'lhe police fluid lliaij, llil| was hit on the hiead with a. specially prepared baton. There was a struggle in the shop, and accused later hit Hill with a bottle about the face and head. Accused then decamped. but was arrested that night. At one time ac (•Used’s father had been employed by the same company asi ll'ill. There was si'ime suggestion this was at the hack of it. Hill had been in the hospital for five days with face t and scalp wounds The fact of a prepared weapon showed the offence way- premeditated. Evans had a slouch ha.l pulled well up'. Il e called al lhe shop after closing lime, knocked and the door was opened bv 'Hill. Counsel said that Evans intended to plead gu'ilty. Bail was fixed at £lOO u,nd one surety " I' £lOO. FARMER ACQUITTED. ' NEW PLYMOUTH, August .15. A verdie' of not guillty on two charges of forgery an dtwo of uttering, was returned by a jury to-day following thp trial of Jack Albert Sabinckol. a I'arnier. BETTING FINE. ('ll RISTdH’R(’II, August J 6. As the result of a raid on the Tautak’i billiard i-alorm, (he licensee, Wil limn Tdiomas (Gulliard, 30. was fined £5O w'.'th costs, by Magistrate Mosley to-day, for carrying on business as a bookmaker. He pleaded guilty. The police said that detective visited lhe rooms as the result of’anonymous complaints, and found Coulthard at lhe telephone taking hets There were 255 hetfling entries in one book ab’iie. He hail apparently a most sii?ceflsl’ul lime, pa i Th ii l;i rl v with doiible.hitving had to pay out practically not hing. Th ( > Magistral!': He will have to pay out now. This is a serious offence. and the man has been in a fairly- big way. PETROL SELLER’S CASE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 1.5. Ai lhe conclusion of the case for the defence. Magistrate Page reserved his decision in 'l'he action brought by .lames Leach, petrol station proprietor. against members <f the Wellington Petrol Resellers’ Association, in the Magistrate’s Court. Defend ants, from whom £5O was claimed for alleged victimisation. wer e Todd Motors I;td., Petrol- Supplies Ltd.. D‘ Luxe Service Station. E. K. Reid and \V. M King, service station pro printers. Addressing the Court, at the close ■if the -evidence, counsel for defeudjinls. Mr Taylor, submitted that lhe whole of the defendants’ activities were within the law, and there was no question of boycott There was no attempt f t) drive Leach out of business. Whatever was done Wils merely to safeguard the interests of resellers in the city. The only pressure brought on Leach was to prevent, him selling at nil uneconomic price. (’•' tinsel for the plaintiff (Mr Patterson) asked the Court Io keep in ready in business at the lime the view the fact that plaintiff was altrouble arose. He contended thatf the stopping of sources ( ,f supply was to pul plaintiff out of business. The maintaining of prices wa.< only a. veil.