WHARF TROUBLES

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 47, 23 February 1917, Page 8

WHARF TROUBLES

WATERSIDERS IN COURT

ALL DEFENDANTS REMANDED.

Arising out of the recent trouble in connection witli the coaling of the ferry steamer' Maori, fourteen waterside workers were charged in the Magistrate's Court, before Mr. L. G. Eeid, S.M., to-day with committing breaches of the War Regulations Act. The defendants were each, charged as follows : " Did an act intended to delay the proper despatch of the steamship Maori from the port of Wellington, to wit, the act of refusing, in breach of the agreement entered into by him, to load the said vessel with bunker coali contrary to clause IS of the Regulations made on 9th February, 1917 and the War. Regulations Amfendment Act."

The. names of the persons charged were as follow : C. Hallem, Thomas Joseph Hedderman, J. Ham, John Trew, Thomas R-eynolds, N. Knott, John Francis Calvert, J. Smith, John Nicholas Carvvood, Frederick George Coley, Michael Henry M'Cabe, J. F. Starkie. P. Heene, and V. Jansen.

Mr. P. S, K. Macassey. appeared for the Crown and Mr. P. J. O'Regan and H. F. O'Leary for the defendants. Th,e latter, applied for a remand and the hejiring of the charges was set down for Tuesday morning next, at 10.30 o'clock.