WHARF WORKER SENT TO GAOL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3027, 14 March 1917, Page 8

WHARF WORKER SENT TO GAOL

INTERFERENCE WITH CARGO DISCHARGING By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, March 13. At the Police Court, Mr. Ciitten, S.M., sentenced Oliver Noakes, a watersider, to eleven months' imprisonment for a broach of the Additional War ltegulations by publishing an uttoranco intended to interfere with the proper unloading of tho. steamer Westralia. The Magistrate found that there was an understanding on tho part of a section of the watersiders not to engage for work before 8 a.m., whereas tho award time, was 7.30; that, when an ex-president of the union broke the understanding by engaging before 8 a.m., the defendant made a remark to him which the Magistrate considered to be a threat. The Magistrate held that the remark was intended to delay engagement til] 8 a.m., and, consequently, a, delay in the unloading of the vessel.

HOTEL-KEEPER FINED FOR SEDITIOUS SPEECH A GEErMOUTH INCIDENT. Creymouth, March 13. Maurice Fitzgerald, hotel-keeper, was to-day convicted and fined £25, with £10 costs, on a charge of seditiondisloyal statements made in his hotel bar parlour. Mr. Hutchison, S.M., in giving judgment, said he considered tho case serious, although not comparable to noted cases in the Dominion where imprisonment had been ordered. In fixing the penalty; he had borne in mind that the conviction might possibly involve other consequences for the defendant.