BUSINESS MAN ATTACKED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 74, 20 December 1937, Page 9

BUSINESS MAN ATTACKED

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Men Resented His Painting His Own Shop "SCABBING ON PAINTERS"

(By Telegraph-

WAIHI, Dec. IS, i Following a complaint the police' instituted proceedzngs against Albert Osborne, Reginald Thomas Burke, and Charles Peter Binnie for unprovoked assault on a prominent business man, Wilfred Osmond Parr. The case Wa» heard before Mr. F. H. Leviec, S.M., at the Waihi Court, It was alleged that the aceused men, slightly under the influence of drink, paraded Main street on Saturday afternoon and took strong exception to Parr painting his own shop. Parr said they abused him roundly in vile language, repeatedly alleging he was scabbing on painters. During the afternoon they stopped opposite his shop four or five Ditties, using abusivo language. Parr . stated he took no notice but went on with tho painting. On the fifth occasion Osborne, without warning and while Parr was in a stooplng position, struek Parr, who straightened up, swung round, and knocked the man down. Osborne returned to the attack and was knocked down a seeond time. Later Bennie and Burke joined in the fray. Hearing the police were coming tho men ran away. Summing up, Mr. Levien said it was a perfectly unprovoked assault in each case. The complainant was 'painting his own shop — doing his own work. The extreme pleasure that was derived from doing something with one's own hands Cannot be denied one, and he did not tbink tho time had arrived when a man should be called opprobrious names for doing such work. Why should he be deprived from doing anything he wished with his own hands? "There are multitudinous avenues open to him for doing pleasurable work, and I trust that man will never be denied that pleasure, whether it be economie or uneconomic to do it," said the Magistrate. Osborne was fined 50s and Burke and Bennie 40s each, t ,j,-