DUCAL INCIDENT
THAT CIGARETTE FIREMAN GETS £lO. (Australian Press Association.) ( Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) BRISBANE, Jan. 11. As a sequel to tlie cigarette incident at Toowoomba on December when the Duke of Gloucester was requested by a fireman to cease smoking at the civic ball, William Buchanan, a railway employee and voluntary fireman, yesterday at XoowiJomba Court was awarded £lO damages with costs against James Douglas Annand, Mayor of Toowoomba for assault and wrongful arrest.
Buchannan who had claimed £IOO damages, gave evidence that Annand approached him in the kitchen and called him a ‘‘rotten, disloyal mongrel. Fancy a thing like you telling the Duke to put out his cigarette. You ar e not fit to wipe his boots.” Naturally said Buchanan, I called him a liar.
Fireman Paterson then appeared and said it was lie who requested the Dube to extinguish his cigarette, explaining in apologetic tones that the risk of fire was too great, whereto the Duke replied: “Is that so,” and extinguished his cigarette.
Annand gave his version of the a f* fair. He said that night lie called Paterson a mongrel, but he denied giving plaintiff in charge. H e added that Buchanan and Paterson had adopted a elligerent attitude.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1935, Page 5
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