WAR REGULATIONS.
WATERSIDERS FINED
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
AUCKLAND, This Da v. At the Police Court, Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M-, sentenced Oliver Nonkes, a watersider, to eleven months in prison for a breach of the additional war regulations for publishing utterances intended to interfere with the proper unloading of the steamer Westralia.
The Magistrate found that there was an understanding on the part of a section of the watersiders not to engage for work before 8 a.m., whereas the award time was 7..'50. That when tin exPresident of th eUnion broke the understanding by engaging before 8 a.m., defendant made a remark to him which the -Magistrate considered to be a threat-
The Magistrate held that the remark was intended to delay engagement till 8 a.m., consequently a delay in the unloading of the vessel.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1917, Page 2
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