GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 258, 30 March 1914, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

A TRIVIAL A <SAUIX By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, Saturday Nighl. At the Magistrate's Court to-day a dispute that led to an assault: by a waterside]' on the secretary of the Union was enquired into. Malcolm Mcl.eod. complainant, stated that Archibald Hall, one of the Fcderationi-it strikers who recently paid 'his fee for entrance to the new union, went into the secretary's oflice on Friday morning and used disgusting language and snatched the oliice keys and a receipt book. On complainant trying a prevent him. a rough scuffle ensued. Hal! retaining the keys. The. secretary held that Hall wa.s not financial, lie having only paid liie entrance foe. .Tlall considered he w.i,. ami claimed the right to see the hooks, ami liad as much right as McLeod to have the keys, as lie held that Mcl.eod was not the, legally appoinUyl secretary, lie admitted a slight assault. His Worship' regretted that such ill'feeling existed, and advised Wall thai .'there was a legal way of averting any rights hi'claimed. As'to Hall euiiiinuinij to claim the keys, his Worship said that if "he did so the ease must g (1 to another Court, and on eonimili.al for trial by a jury the keys Would then he handed to .McLeod. Tin. Magistrate hoped that this would be the last of the matter, and ordered defendant to pay costs and solicitor's fee, deeming the assault, not serious enough to enter a conviction.