WATERSIDE WORKER CONVICTED
PEANUT SHELLS THROWN INTO RING (United Press Association) DUNEDIN, May 24. Becoming impatient with the contestants in a wrestling match between McIntyre and Kirilinko, which was held in the Town hall on May 15, James Charles Mort, a waterside worker, aged 28 years, threw a packet of peanut shells into the ring, an action which resulted in his appearance before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today on a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner in a public place of entertainment. In any future case of trouble at a wrestling match, the Magistrate said, he would impose a substantial penalty. The Magistrate entered a conviction and ordered defendant to pay costs X5/6)).
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Southland Times, Issue 23208, 25 May 1937, Page 8
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