Miner fined for assault

A miner was yesterday fined $25,000 by a city magistrate after he pleaded guilty to assaulting another man.

David Robertson, 21, was brought before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and read a charge which stated that on October 18, at Imbaimadai Village, Kamarang, he assaulted Mahendra Hunter, causing actual bodily harm.

Robertson, of Kamarang Village, pleaded