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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 36, 14 February 1929, Page 6

Tlie Napier Telegraph states. Mi A. W. Beach, of Greenmeadows, was awakened at' his house in Ike early hours the other morning hy a man who demanded a bed and threatened jta Wow the place up if lie did not get it. The police were communicated with, and Constable D. Flannery arrested 'William Barnes, aged G 3, a labourer. The man was charged at the Napier Police Court with being unlawfully on the promises, pleading guilty, saying that he was drunk at the time and, did no(t remember anything about the affair. Mr A. M. Mowlem, &.M., said that settlers in the country had to he protected from people who wandered round in the early hours of the morning threatening to blow hp houses. The law looked on such “carryings-on” as serious, and provided (that such a man could be sent to gaol three mMths. The fact that the man was drunk did not matter in the least, said the Magistrate, who lined defendant £3 in default a month’s imprisonment. He told defendant tliaitj he had had a narrow escape.