FATHER'S ACTION

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1936, Page 6

FATHER'S ACTION

DAUGHTER THRASHED IN STREET

CASE BEFORE AUCKLAND COURT

(Per Press' Association. —Copyright).

AUCKLAND, November 5

/AYrestod’ Tri”.Qu'fl'eu Street at' ‘six Afdtojsk irtiglfit after lie l had''thrashed his' eighteen-year-old daughter, D?uncah'Alexander. Raider wood, aged; j4£, was cliarged dn .the pdlic'e couyt to-Aay i with 'assault - aiid ? ’behaving, iiu.a disorderly iiiahner. Hqpleaded guilty andfef 1 fektt'feih'e; provocation. ; , ’ rSubAiispectdr ' Fdx said Calderwood. gbb'dati'hUa ihofthr-truck in. Quern!. St. and ' tHe 'girl witH : a length-pf-fouV ply ir'opO. ' He did* riot da much harm -to • his. daughter,) who was 'n# atdppm'g a'b his Lonfe; Tlie father dragged: the girl" across tfle ; street by' the iilg- rind/finallyy/Avith the-asSistarice' of his wife; who was the : girl’s 'step-ihoth-et; .'the gil ; l ; was bundled'! into 1 the cab of : the- lorry.' A* 1 man: stodd in frOnt of the'. lorry it from* moving) and called' a* constable Avhd" hadwitnessedthethraaliibg: .■!;Counsel', for-. CaWeinvoOtP said the girh had been outr of- - Contrbli The*, father vAesterd ay !■: discovered' she was not' working' at. the: place: where- she Vaidir ■

,Aft.-AVyvern- Wilson/. S.M;, after peiy using, the; H«-t, saidi CaWerwopd- liimse’i had ibeeri cmivipteLfor- theft and breaking;, and, enteriilgjN which, hhd'iiobbeen a:good influence for the hirl ' The only .thing, vvhidh saved ;him from going tor prison was the. fact that? tile thrashing,'was nqt; severe. It iVas a disgraceful loss: of seiteonirol by a mail who was the. father of'children'. " H*e "nias . qoiivicted' and ordered to conib up for', sentence' if cjlile'd" on within 'Six morttlis'.: ; , , •’! : Replying to the; magistrate* The: poF lice said ■tlie'girhyesfefddy ’was handed' over to the a'hd'' the pbliee' wbUld 'Tiot ddse' sight’ of her . until soinelHing -was arranged.’