NO APPEALS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 144, 15 December 1922, Page 7

NO APPEALS

AGAINST SEAMEN'S CONVICTIONS

MANY OASES ADJOUBNED.,

When thirty-eix cases taken by the Inspector of Awards (Mr. A. T. Bailey) against seamen on the grounds that they were parties to a strike, were.called before Mr E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate s Court this morning, Mr. D R Hoggard, representing the seamen, intimated that it was not intended to appeal against the convictions entered ai"stP. Manson of £he Wainui, and N. M'Kmnon, of the Kahika, on whom Mr. Page last week inflicted .penalties of £2 each on the grounds that they were parties to a strike. Mr. Hoggard further stated that the defendants were prepared to.accept the evidence against Manson s and M'Kinnon as applying to themselves. So far as the cases against seamen, firemen, and greasers from the Maungamii,-Hawera, Kapiti, Maori, Ngahere, and Ripple were concerned, they would prefer that stand over until after the holidays. Mr. A: Fair, representing the Inspector of Awards, suggested that the Labour Department should be allowed solicitors costs. •

His Worship intimated that he was prepared to allow these. He asked Mr. Hoggard if he was consenting to judgment in the remaining cases against Wainur and Kahika men.

Mr. Hoggard said he was not. He was prepared to admit the., evidence, and realised that a conviction would follow.

His Worship thereupon gave judgment for the plaintiff in each case, and inflicted penalties of £?, with costs 13s 6d against the following men of the Wamui: H. White. J. Law, M. M'Leod, N. Morrison, and F. Shorter; and of £2 and costs 15s 6d against the following men from the Kahika: H. Ogles, A. Kreig, and K. Lundon.

The remaining cases .were adjourned WS. 4kci .... ■•'■•