ASSAULT & ROBBERY
CHARGE AGAINST NATIVES AT ROTORUA. PUBLIC WORKS FOREMAN’S COMPLAINT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ROTORUA, This Day. Allegations that he had been brutally attacked, knocked down and robbed of about £7 were made to the police by George W. Johnston, aged 48, a Public Works foreman, on Saturday evening. Mr Johnston, who later was admitted to hospital, with severe facial injuries, stated that he had been accosted by two natives in the street at about 6 p.m. He alleged that these natives dragged him along the road for some distance, robbing him of £7 while he lay unconscious on the footpath.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1938, Page 9
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101ASSAULT & ROBBERY Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1938, Page 9
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