FIGHT AT WESTFIELD
PROVOCATION ALLEGED
“OLD-STANDING FEUD” Pleading guilty under provocation, at the Otahuhu Police Court, to lighting in the Westfield Saleyards, Alfred Ferris was convicted and ordered to pay court fees totalling JC I 2s. and four witnesses' expenses at 17s Cd each, a total of £4 12s. “That’s the least he can get off with." remarked Mr. F. 11. Levien, S.M., the presiding magistrate. Ferris informed his Worship that he was a disabled T.B. * Digger,” unable to work, and asked for time to pay his account. Three weeks were allowed. In conducting the ease, Sergeant Lambert said that Fei ) was seen to approach a farmer, who was engaged unloading pigs at the yards. and, mounting the farmer’s lorry, he attacked him. The sergeant said he understood there was Ti sort of a feud, of old standing. In. evidence Ferris said he was only trying to get possession of a tarpaulin which the farmer had borrowed last July, incidentally stating that the man owes his wife £ 5 for poultry he had sold and failed to settle the account. He said that his opponent got the first hit in with a piece of wood. The had four witnesses present who were* not called.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 610, 12 March 1929, Page 16
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