BOARDING-HOUSE FIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 921, 14 March 1930, Page 1

BOARDING-HOUSE FIGHT

TWO MEN ATTACK ONE "INTOLERABLE CONDUCT” | Special to THE SUH NEW PLYMOUTH, Today. i "This is disgraceful and reminiscentof happenings in Sydney slums. Such j conduct will not be tolerated in New ! Zealand,” declared Mr. J. H. Salmon, I S.M., at Hawera yesterday, when ; dealing with Wallace Robinson, a married man, who for seven years has been a Taranaki representative, and Lancelot Goodger in connection with charges against them as a result of a fracas in a Hawera boarding-house bedroom. The fracas will cost Wallace Robinson £lO or one month’s gaol before the Rugby season, for being unlawfully on the premises, and £5 or 14 days’ gaol for committing mischief. The penalty Goodger will have to pay is two months’ gaol for assault and two months’ gaol for being unlawfully on. the premises. Defendants had met a Maori named Brew in the street and a disturbance had taken place. The following day they visited Brew’s bedroom at the ; boarding-house and another scuffle | ensued, Brew being dragged from his 1 bed and kicked and handled by j Goodger. I There appeared to be an irregularity | in the procedure, said the magistrate, in reference to a charge against Wali lace Robinson of assaulting Brew, and j defendant on that charge was not pro- | perly before the court. The magis- | trate said the boarding-house fracas | was the sequel to an encounter in the street between Brew and Robinson in | which Robinson got the worst of it.