STRIKE REGULATIONS FOR COOK ISLANDS
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 11. Regulations extending the provisions of the New’ Zealand Strikes and Lockouts Emergency Regulations to cover industrial disputes in the Cook Islands were gazetted tonight. The regulations, Which ai’e called the Cook Islands Trade Dispute Intimidation Regulations provided that every person, commits an offence who intimidates any person acting within his legal rights, by the use of violence to either that person, or to his wife, or his child, or by threats to injure that person or his property. Any corporate body committing an ofl'nee against the regulations is liable to a fine not exceeding £5O, and any person who offends is liable to a fine not exceeding £2O, or three months imprisonment. The regulations are interesting in view of the Prime Minister’s announcement, last week, that a small body of police were leaving for Raratonga in case of .trouble there.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 March 1948, Page 7
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