POLICE ASSAULTED
PONCAROA FRACAS; ;7 ilN> __ » > ' ■' j ' "".K - SEVERAL MEN FINED. ■''[ jltf li-.\v*.»'tVi I ?••' •>• ! :> • ' ONE' ICHARGE DISMISSED.' | Press; Association— Copyright V gw .'■■; "•! ''This Day. \ As a sequel to the recent disturbjance at Pongaroa, the magistrate;, ;rS;.M., delivered hiSlTSrejserved judgment. '• , M. P.. Dillon, for resisting the po|i<s4 was fined £3;; Harry Dilldri' for. assaulting Goristable Mcintosh wafc fined £2, and W.; A. Reid and Ft Wright 7 . Were each 1 fined £1 for' obf ''Btrueting 1 the police. ''""'A -• have also to pay CQsU Iff each*'-. :instance. The change 'agalhst'M. "i , . : Dillon of being li^opcf car was dismissed, a large rtumbei, of persons, having testified to ;: ,hi^ 'sQpilety',an,d the magistrate'consjdf jered defendant was entitled to. ith4 Jjenefit'of the doubt. '.■•'■'-■! <.;? Just prior, to the arrest the con T atskble',: obtained the opinion ofi-aj prominent- settler who is a Justice olfMhe Peace and who was standing. iiea*i. he did not itiiW defeiidant-was in a fit state to dr'iye tw :''"'' , ''- . ~.._. [' The magistrate said he was satis-} fjitiV tn^ : constable honestly believed) defeiflfant'"'was intoxicated, and "had] reasonable grounds for so doing,.. ~lt| w£a admitted that M. F. Dillon.had| had idomp drink in {he late after-; noon. - ? i . \< : :,', \-rk !'
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 91, 13 July 1928, Page 5
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193POLICE ASSAULTED Stratford Evening Post, Issue 91, 13 July 1928, Page 5
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