UNION DELEGATE CHARGED WITH COMMITTING ASSAULT
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' Christchurch, Wednesday. ' There was a large attendance at /the Lyttelton Court to-day, when William Evans, acting-delegate for the Seamen's Union at Lyttelton, was , charged with assaulting Arthur John- * , son. , J ohnson gave evidence that he was , accosted by a stranger at Lyttelton , and asked if he was looking for work. He answered "No." Then the stranger persuaded him to go to the shipping office. The place to which he 'was taken was the seamen's meeting room. Some of the men made at him v after the stranger had said, "Here ^you are, here is a dot." He ran away, but was set upon, hit and kicked. Accused hit him several blows. Evans was sentenced to a month's 1 imprisonment.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 528, 11 May 1933, Page 5
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