FINED FOR ASSAULT.
FRACAS IN STREET
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) PUKEKOHE, Aug. 22.
"There was no call for the assault," said the magistrate, Mr F. H. Levien, at the Pukekohe Court, as he fined Ronald Nixon for assault and the use of obscene language at Pokeno. John Dulieu, flaxmill employee, Mercer, said he was walking in Pokeno with his wife on July 22, when he met accused. "He let go his bicycle, jumped on top of me, and hit me several times," said witness. Asked what it was all about, accused replied that witness had been making statements about him, saying he (witness) was the "better man." When he told accused that he would lodge a complaint with the police, Nixon attempted to "put in the boot," but witness' wife picked up a bag he had been carrying and struck Nixon on the head.
Asked by Mi- E. G. Foster as to the reason of the assault, witness said he had told Nixon in a previous conversation that he knew nothing about flax, but only about cows and pigs. He had never offered to fight Nixon.
Accused said there had been previous trouble, and the complainant had been abusive.
Nixon was fined £4/10/- for assault and £l/10/- for .using obscene language, together with £2/2/costs.
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Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17972, 22 August 1930, Page 5
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