BLUEJACKETS ASHORE
DRUNKEN MELEE. POLICE ASSAULTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) TIMARU, Last Nigjit. Chas. Dunn, A.8., of H.M.S. Pioneer, was yesterday fined £2, or three days' imprisonment, for drunkenness and using obscene language in the' streets, and was convicted on a, charge of assaulting the police. This was the outcome of a melee, in which two police officers, Sergeant Dart and Constable Fulton were badly mauled, especially the former, by a I number of drunken m-an-of-'warsmen, I who were assisteed by some town! "hoodlums'' whom tthe police are un-j able to identify. The Magistrate said that he made the penalty light, as the man would be dealt with further aboard his ship. He said that the men were allowed a certain amount of liberty ashore, but they must conform to the civil laws.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10568, 26 February 1912, Page 7
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132BLUEJACKETS ASHORE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10568, 26 February 1912, Page 7
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