SEVEN MEN SENT TO GAOL.
: « BESETTING RELIEF WORKERS. i ' , (fKESS AB3OCUTION TKLBORiM.y WELLINGTON, July 28. f "My view js that this disturbance ! was not brought about by genuine re- ■ lief workers, but was engineered by you, a few agitators," said Mr E. Page, S.M., to-day, in sentencing to three months' imprisonment seven defendants who were recently charged with besetting arising from the partial strike of relief workers. ,* The magistrate told the accused that they would have to understand that properties were not to be trespassed on and that workmen and overseers were not to be intimidated. Accused were: Charles Morris Brooks, 37 years of age; Charles Frederick Barker, alias Burrows, 49 years: John Harvey Blair, 37 years; Richard ) Henry Webb, 28 years; Eric George 1 Pocock, 25 years; Thomas Ridout, 51 i years; and William Benjamin Arthur 2 Wilkinson, 37 years.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20920, 29 July 1933, Page 9
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