WARNINGS OF NO AVAIL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 71, 20 September 1912, Page 8

WARNINGS OF NO AVAIL

AMOUNT OF SURETY INCREASED. FORTY-FIVE MEN PREFER TO BE "HEROES." WAIHI, This Day. _ Ihe final batch of charges in connection with the following of free labourers was preferred to-day against Walter Collins, Wm. Collins, Ueo. Bence, W. Perry, and Wattie Piacun, Defendants, pleaded not guilty. In opening for the prosecution Mr. Mays said it was regrettable that all the warnings and court proceedings had not so far had the desired effect on the strikers. Some of those now before the court had been charged earlier in the week, but had escaped with, the exception of Piacun. ' ' The Magistrate in making an order to find sureties to keep the peace increased the amount of the surety to £50 and another of £50. These men elected to go to gaol. The number going to gaol to-day is 29, making a total since the proceedings were instituted of 46. Altogether there were 51 bound over, six of whom found sureties. THE WOMEN'S PART. During the court proceedings to-day a number of women paraded outside the courthouse bearing placards with the inscription, "Don't be traitors to your class." GISBOBNE RESOLUTION. [BT TKtBGRAPH— PRKSB ASSOCUSION.] GISBORNE, 19th September. At a largely-attended- public meeting the following resolution was carried :: — • "That this meeting of citizens censures the Government for sending police to Waihi, and demands that the men imprisoned in connection with the strikes be immediately released."