ILLEGAL STRIKE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 April 1922, Page 7

ILLEGAL STRIKE.

EMPLOYEES FINED

CBT TELEGKAPH PRESS ASROOIATTDN.T GISBORNE, April 27. Ninety-six summonses against freez- ' ing works employees of the Poverty Bay Meat Company, in connec- j tion with the strike which occurred at I the works^ on March 16, were heard this morning by Mr Barton, S.M. Twenty-three cases were struck out on the grounds that defendants had not participated in the strike, and in the remainder of the cases the Labour Department claimed the full penalty under the Act, £10, but "did not press for it on defendants admitting the offences. ' Each was fined £2, with 5s costs.

There was sonic excitement at the j Addington. trotting ground after the April Handicap had been run (states the Lyttelton Times). A man who had drawn his dividend from the totalisa- . tor was just preparing to walk away, I when a young man snatched £13 in j notes from his hand and made away, j The robbed was a man of action, for he went after the robber with all haste, and in a few seconds he had him secure: on the ground. Detective Rhoehnn then J came up, and' the' would-be diviclendsntftcher was arMsted;