DISMISSED AS TRIVIAL
CHARGE OF ASSAULT ON SERVICEMAN (Uoued Prpss Association! WELLINGTON, This Day. In a case involving the rights of City Council servicemen to enter houses the Magistrate, Mr Stout, to-day dismissed as trivial a charge of assault brought against Grace Daphne King, a married woman. If the Corporation could cut the power off outside a house and if there was a dispute about cutting it off at the switchboard, they should cut it off outside, he said. It appeared that Dudley Tate, a serviceman, was instructed 1o collect arrears of lighting'from defendant and on failing to do so, he mounted a table in the house to cut off the power at the switchboard, whereupon defendant rushed at him, hit 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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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 1 December 1938, Page 10
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