"DISGRACEFUL BRAWL."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 12

"DISGRACEFUL BRAWL."

SEQUEL IN POLICE COURT. SEVERAL YOUNG MEN FINED. Five youths, George E. Porter, John W. Cross, Waller 0. Btichan, Leslie C. Buchan and Charles Renlon, appeared before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, charged with behaving in a disorderly manner. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said the defendants, with two girls, went to a house in Grey Lynn recently and asked if they could be included in a- party which was in progress. When refused they made a disturbance and a free fight ensued. A tram conductor who was walking up tho street was knocked down and injured so severely that, he was in hospital for 10 days. The youths were mixed in a disgraceful brawl. Each of the defendants was fined £2 and ordered to make, good between them £l3 2s. the expenses incurred by the conductor. One of the defendants, Renton, together with Reginald Herbert Fitzjames and Stanley Jack Jones, was also charged with disorderly behaviour at Surfdale on New Year's Eve. Mr. Kelly said the three young men were involved iu a fight in the dance hall at. Surfdale about midnight. A constable had to use force to remove the men. Defendants went there with three live gallon kegs of beer. . , Each defendant was fined £j, in default, 21 (lavs' imprisonment.