RELIEF WORKER CHARGED
TOWN CLERK ASSAULTED FINE OF £5 IMPOSED. ' (Feb United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 21. In the Police Court this morning George Thomas Mouncer, a relief worker and secretary of the Lyttelton Relief Workers' Association, pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting Frederick Hobbs, town clerk of Lyttelton, and was fined £5, in default a month's imprisonment. The. accused said there had been illfeeling between the two, and 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 ear after calling at the lattcr's house on Saturday night.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22268, 22 May 1934, Page 4
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