PUGNACIOUS DEBATERS
ARGUMENT STARTS FIGHT Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, January 25. An argument as to whether certain dogs were greyhounds or whippets led to a fight on Saturday night, and as a result John Wakefield, a Maori, aged 27, and Alfred R. Carey, aged 20, appeared in court charged with assault. A witness stated he was taking sope greyhound pups along the street, when Carey and Wakefield got into conversation with him about the dogs. Later someone passed an insulting remark, and a fight ensued. Carey said that the remark which started the trouble was directed at the Maori. The latter said the remark was made about a Maori by three men, and a fight began. The owner of the dogs joined in. according ,to Wakefield, and “what with people trying to get, him out of the fight and others trying to get him in.” he was not clear what happened. He denied that he struck a woman who was knocked over in the scuffle. Each of the accused was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for assault.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12354, 26 January 1926, Page 7
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