FRACAS ON RIVER WHARF.
VOLUNTEER WORKER'S ACT.
WOUNDS MAN WITH REVOLVER PERMIT TO CARRY WEAPON. FURTHER SHOTS EXCHANGED. (Received November 15. 10.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE. Nov. 15. Tlmro was a disturbance this afternoon among sonic waterside workers who were unloading sugar from a vessel at Yarravillc, a riverside suburb of Melbourne.
A volunteer worker, who had a permit to carry a revolver, shot a man named Conron in the groin.
Further shots were subsequently fired. Conron is now in hospital. He refuses to say anything about tho affair.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20105, 16 November 1928, Page 13
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87FRACAS ON RIVER WHARF. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20105, 16 November 1928, Page 13
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