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OLD MAN ROBBED. ASSAULT BY MASKED MEN. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, August 19. James Stewart, aged seventy-nine, a rent collector, was brutally assaulted to-day and robbed off £5 at his home in Paddington. Mr'Stewart had just returned home after collecting rents, when two masked young men broke into the place, knocked him down, kicked him, rifled his pockets, but missed a large sum in another part of the house.
MASS PICKETING. TO BE 'STOPPED. SYDNEY, August 20. The Premier, Mr Bavin,' announced after the Cabinet meeting to-day that the Government had , decided immediately to prevent mass picketing or any other form of intimidation of volunteer labour at the timber yards. RIOTERS UNDER ARREST. SYDNEY, August 20. Arthur Redmond, aged 16, a timber striker, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for assaulting a volunteer worker. He was also fined £5 for indecent language. All those arrested at last Saturday’s riot, outside Hudson’s yards, have been remanddd till Monday.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1929, Page 3
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