ALLEGED BESETTING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 7, 6 December 1932, Page 7

ALLEGED BESETTING

iipNGBURN FREEZING WORKERS. TWO MEN CHARGED. sMlFollowing upon incidents which al|j|j|jfcedly occurred this morning, two fflfwng men, William Frederick Wat%jijoii and Oswald Saunders later apJkjfeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., vj : jjjn,V ; . the Magistrate’s Court on a fflSjHijirge that on December 6, at Long®#*lrn, with a view to compelling |ffl»pezing workers to abstain from doa certain act which they had a jMiHijgal right to do, viz., proceed to work |!»tkthe freezing works, they did wrongand without legal authority |||iwtch and beset Longburn freezing [ViWorkers on Foxton Line, where they ; happened to be. Senior-Sergeant Whitehouse applied 'if, for the remand of the case for a week "until December 13. ffifSjtr H. R. Cooper appeared for accusf(tf<T7and asked that bail be granted. ||MMr Whitehouse said that a number .’ ' of- 'other charges were pending against ranpHli accused and that if bail was K ited it should be made as heavy because if the accused ; Y €nt free they would only go straight >'■ down to Longburn and abuse, intimi<dat|fc and threaten the witnesses. 'p i 'nfll do not think that the Senior f.' i Sergeant is entitled to assume anylike that,” commented counnp Whitehouse: It can be assumed ... from . their past actions. HralSl? 6 Magistrate fixed bail in accusown recognisance of £2OO and sureties of £IOO, reminding them ttWaucb they would lose it if they started iiSSI trouble.