FISH SHOP EPISODE
IMPRISONMENT FOLLOWS. Seven days’ imprisonment and ordered to pay the cost of the damage to furniture amounting to £l3 1-58 was the sentence imposed on George Scott McNaughton at the Wanganui Court for hie share in the disturbance at the Egmont Dining Room, Patea, on February 11. Evidence was given by A. E. Vodanovich, proprietor of the rooms, that accused entered the shop with another man, and one complained that the fish was no good. Accused used bad language and rushed at witness when he informed the pair that they could have something else. McNaughton and his companion picked up chairs and scattered crockery, bottles, and fried fish, broke a window, and tore paper off the dining room wall. In a statement accused said he ha<l been drinking heavily with a man named Rose. The latter said something in Italian to Vodanovich and an altercation began. Accused went to protect Rose.
Sergeant G. Si ever said that both men disappeared after the affair, accused being arrested at Baleluthu, where he was going under the name of Walls. Rose had not yet been arrested.—Press.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1928, Page 7
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