POLICE COURT NEWS
FIGHT IN GREY STREET. EUROPEAN AND HINDOO. Charges of using threatening behaviour in Grey Street on Friday evening were preferred against Frank Sanders, aged 37. and Nahua Lala, aged 33, in the Police Court, before Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.M.. on Saturday. Lala, a Hindoo hawker, said that when he was unloading his cart Sanders came along and took a bunch of c-lery When he tried to regain it Sanders struck him, and he hadT» fight to protect himself. .Sanders stated that he was under the influence cf liquor at the tim*, and could not remember what had happened. The charge against »>,e HinJoo was dismissed, and Sanders was fined 20s. DRUNKENNESS. For his fifth offence of drunkenness within six months Henry Percival South, aged 42, who had served a term en Rotoroa Island, was sentenced to one mouth's imprisonment with hard labour. When Joseph Butler, aged 51, denied being found drunk in Newton Road on Friday evening, the magistrate said it was not the first time Butler had macfe that defence, and imposed a fine of £3.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17271, 22 September 1919, Page 5
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