“FRAYED NERVES”
MAN FINED FOR ASSAULT (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. At the Police Court this morning, George Thomas Mouncer, a- relief worker and secretary of the Lyttelton Belief Workers’ Association, pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting Frederick Hobbs, town clerk of Lyttelton, and was fined £5, in default one month’s gaol. The accused said there had been illfeeling between the two, and the assault was due to 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 latter’s house on Saturday night.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 21 May 1934, Page 11
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