WAR REGULATIONS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 46, 22 February 1917, Page 7

WAR REGULATIONS

FORTY-NINE INFORMATIONS LAID

THE MAORI AND KITTAWA CASES.

In connection with the trouble that recently arose on the waterfront in regard to the use of the Burton bloc?;:, fourteen informations have been laid against the men ,who are said to have refused to coal the Maori and thirty-five against tho men who allegedly refused to unload coal on the Kittawa. The charges are the first to be brought under the new War Regulations gazetted on 9th February last, relating to strikes and lock-outa. In the ease of the Maori eight shovellers and six top hands are concerned, but one of the men is at present away from Wellington. The wording of tho charges concerning the Maori is as follows:—"Whereas information has this day 1 been laid before the undersigned , one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for New Zealand, for that you, the said on the 16th day of February, 1917, at Wellington, in the Dominion aforesaid, did an act intended to delay the proper despatch of the steamship Maori from thb '.fort of Wellington, to wit, the act of refusing, in breach of an engagement entered into by you in that behalf, co load the said vessel with bunker coal contrary to clause 15 of die regulations made on the 9th day of February,. 1917, under the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916." The Maori cases are sut down for heaving at the Magistrate's Court on Monday, and the Kittawa cases for Tuesday. : It; is understood, however, that Mr. P. J. O'Regan, who is appearing for defendants, will ask for an adjournment. ■ .