TOWN CLERK ASSAULTED
RELIEF WORKER FINED [BY TELECBAPH —PBESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday A relief worker, George Thomas Mouncer, secretary* of the Lyttelton Relief Workers' Association, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day to a charge of assaulting Frederick Hobbs, town clerk of Lyttelton. He was fined £5, in default a month's imprisonment. Accused said there had been ill-feel-ing between the twb. The assault was due to a sudden impulse and was not premeditated. It was mostly a- case of frayed nerves. The police said Mouncer hit Hobbs on the car after calling at the latter's house on Saturday night.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21806, 22 May 1934, Page 12
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