RESULT OF COURT CASES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 30 November 1912, Page 8

RESULT OF COURT CASES

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WAIHI, Nov. 30. The hearing of the remaining charges for assault and threatening behaviour, preferred against arbitrationists aiid federationists, was concluded. W. E. Harvey (the Cockney) and James Edwards (Slim Jim), fighting in the public street, were fined 20s and costs. Kenneth Kidd (f/aderationist), threatening behaviour, was dismissed. John Elsie Good (federationist), alleged assault, was dismissed ; a similar charge against William Pilesbury (arbitrationist) was dismissed. Henry Bostoek and Henry Gray (arbitfationists), for assaulting Kennedy, were fined 20s. James Delaney. assault, lined 20s, and costs. William James Swears (arbitrationist), threatening behaviour, was ordered to pay costs. Albert Martin, similarly charged, wa" fined 20s and costs. The Magistrate, in giving bis decisions, made strong comment on the conduct of the strikers, and commended the workers on the remarkable self-con-trol they had exercised during their long period of annoyance and persecution at the hands of the strikers.