SHEOFFERED TO FIGHT

NZ Truth, Issue 1263, 13 February 1930, Page 10

SHEOFFERED TO FIGHT

Woman's Challenge To Ranger (From "N.Z. Truth's" dhristchurch Rep.) , . TN attempting to impound a herd of cows belonging to Bertha Catherine Hamilton, Edward Greaves assumed a task that proved too much for him. He would have succeeded m his purpose only . for his meeting with Mrs. Hamilton, but after that his chances of success were hopeless. Mrs. Hamilton . thought that the cows should not have been impounded, but she was prepared to take a sporting view of the matter, and offered | to fight Greaves for their possession. Greaves did not. fight, preferring, to retire from the field without the honors or the cows. The sequel to the affair was the appearance of Mrs. Hamilton m the Christchurch Magistrate's Court 'on a charge of > rescuing the cows, which had been seized for the purpose of impounding. I Greaves, who was represented by Mr. Pilkington. said that he had seen the herd of nineteen cows and one bull on a road m the Springs County. They were unattended and had wandered past the open gate of a paddock belonging to Mrs. Hamilton. He rounded them up and was driving them to the pound when Mrs. Hamilton came along. She argued that the cows should not have been Impounded and pushed, him off his bicycle. She kept on knocking him off his. bicycle every time he got on it, and he was unable to drive the cows. ' ' . He asked her for 5/-, the fee he would have received for driving- the' herd to the pound, but she refused to give it to him, offering to fight him for the animals instead. . , Mrs. Greaves, for whom Mr. Roy Twynehara appeared, said that she had attempted to put the cows m a paddock, but was hampered by the bull. She went back to her home, threequarters of a mile away, to get a dog, and when she returned she found the cows In charge of Greaves. There was an argument, but she did not push him from his bicycle as he was not riding at the time. He struck her •on the shoulder, causing an injury which prevented her from working for a week. It was after he struck her that she offered to 'fight him for the cows, but he got on his bicycle and rode away, probably being ashamed of what he had done. The case was dismissed;,