CUTTING-OFF POWER IN HOUSES
RIGHTS OF CITY COUNCIL SERVICEMEN (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 5 1. In a case involving the rights of City Council servicemen to enter houses, the Magistrate, Mr J. L. Stout, today dismissed as trivial a charge of assault brought against Grace Daphne King, a married woman. If the corporation could cut the power off outside the house if there was a dispute about cutting it off at the switchboard, they should cut it off outside, he said. It appeared that Dudley Tate, a serviceman, was instructed to collect arrears of lighting from the defendant and on failing to do so he mounted a table in the house to cut off the power at the switchboard, whereupon the defendant rushed at him and knocked him off. Another serviceman, who accompanied him, after relating his version of the altercation and assault, mentioned they had disconnected the power outside.
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Southland Times, Issue 23681, 2 December 1938, Page 4
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