MR WALSH’S FINES.
ONE TO BE ENFORCED.
OLD PENALTIES TO BE REMITTED In view of the criticism levelled at the Australian Ministry with reference to the failure to collect the fine of £IOO imposed on Mr. T. Walsh last year, the Attorney-General. Mr. Latliam, K.C., a few days ago said that steps were being: taken to secure the payment of that amount, with costs. Asked whether it was intended to collect the fines of £3OO, the penalties to which Mr. Walsh was sentenced in July, 1919, on two charges of having encouraged strikes, Mr. Latham said that Mr. Walsh was on the second occasion sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and served two months. At that time a serious shipping strike was proceeding, hut as a result of an agreement reached at a conference the strike ended, shipping activities were resumed, Mr. Walsh was released from imprisonment, and the fines imposed were not enforced. “It is not intended after the lapse of more than six years,” remarked Mr. Latham, “to re. onen the settlement of the 1919 strike. The fine imposed, as a result of the proceedings last year will, as already stated, certainly he enforced..”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 February 1926, Page 2
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195MR WALSH’S FINES. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 February 1926, Page 2
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