A BRAWL ABOUT “BLACKPAN.”
At the Wellington S.M. Court 3'este relay, a Dutch cook and a Cockney fireman from the Arawa stepped forward with grievances which kept the Court occupied and interested for about half-an-hour. The cook, Peter Alexander Vielaars, had evidently encountered trouble. His head was bound up in sticking-plaster, and he looked pained and weary. The cause of his sadness was Thomas Parry, the Cockney fireman, whom he charged with assault. But for “blackpau,” it seemed, all would have gone as merrily as a marriage bell.
Mr M. Myers, for prosecutor, explained what “blackpan” was. All the delicacies that were left over from the first and second saloon were hashed together, and served out to the firemen as a perquisite. Parry smarted under a sense of grievance, because he considered he had not received a fair share of “blackpan,” Consequently, he promised to “do things” to the cook on their arrival in Wellington, and, according to the evidence, he carried out his promise. “I was going down to bed, when he stopped me and knocked my head about so that the doctor had to attend me,” said the prosecuting cook, “ he called me a flatfooted, Ditch , and then knocked me down.”
Defendant protested his innocence with indigation. Also he called a couple of brother firemen to testify 7 on his behalf, but the Magistrate expressed himself as quite convinced that the assault had been committed, and imposed a fine of 20s. and costs, with seven days’ imprisonment as an alternative.—Dominion.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 15 October 1907, Page 3
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252A BRAWL ABOUT “BLACKPAN.” Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 15 October 1907, Page 3
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