FREEZING TROUBLE
“Watching” Free Labourers at Waitara Works SEVERAL MEN CONVICTED I By Telegraph—Press Association. New Plymouth, Jan. 25. “The criterion whether the men were there out of idle curiosity or with the object of bringing pressure to bear on free labourers was their action subsequent to the time when they were advised by the police to disperse to their homes/said Mr. WH. Woodward S.M., in the New Plymouth Police Court to-day, when convicting several former unionists of “watching” free labourers in their bunkhouse at jhe Waitara freezing works on the night or January 7. Previous prosecutions should have been.a warning, he added. L S. Waters was fined £lO, Jack Hook £5, L. Dombroski and T. B. Ewens ■ junior, £2, T. Johnston was admitted to probation for a year, Peter Kawe and Kahel Karena were convicted and discharged, another case adjourned, and charges against eight others dismissed. . ■ ' During the disturbance the bunkhouse was bombarded with stones, and two motor-cycles were smashed.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 104, 26 January 1933, Page 10
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