TALLY CLERKS DISAGREE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9999, 17 June 1918, Page 8

TALLY CLERKS DISAGREE

A FIGHT ON QUEEN’S WHARF. Edgar Stanley Isaac and Robert Albert Grono, two tally clerks employed on tlio waterfront, were charged before Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., on Saturday with threatening behaviour, whereby a- breach of the peace was occasioned on the Queen’s wharf, and with wilfully damaging a pane of glass, valued at 16s, the property of the Wellington Harbour Board. Grono appeared, but Isaac, who was on bail, did not'answer to his name when it was called. Inspector Marsack said that on Friday, about 1.15 o’clock a constable’s attention was drawn to a crowd which has assembled on the Queen’s wharf On making inquiries he found the defendants in the outside tally clerks’ office. Doth men were bleeding, and it was ascci - - tained that a fight had taken place, and a pane of glass had been broken. Constable E. It. Fleming said he found Grono bleeding from a wound to the face, and Isaac from wounds to the hands. Grono explained that a dispute liad arisen between he and Isaac, through the latter wanting to enter the tally clerks’ office when he had not the right to do so. Grono stopped him, and a light ensued. Isaac thought the window was broken during the row, and offered to pay for the damage. Grono may have had drink, but was not drunk. Isaac was sober.

Captain A. Monro, chief wharfinger, stated that Isaac had no authority to enter the tally clerks’ office, but Qrono had.

The magistrate said it was evident that Isaac had been the cause of the trouble through attempting to enter the tally clerks’ .office without authority, and that Grono..acted,.within his rights in preventing him from doing so. The informations against Grono would bo dismissed, and Isaac would bo convicted and fined £3, in default twenty-one days’ imprisonment on one. charge. On the second charge, ho would ho ordered to pay the amount of damage.