BOYCOTT ALLEGED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 289, 3 November 1934, Page 7

BOYCOTT ALLEGED.

CASE AT WELLINGTON. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Nov. 2. A statement that certain Labour organisations were boycotting the Carlton Hotel was made in the Magistrate’s Court to-day by Mr J. A. Scott, when addressing the Magistrate on the question of penalty in a case in which the licensee, Samuel Dunn, and a barman, James Simson, were convicted of selling liquor after hours. The police evidence was that some men unlawfully obtained liquor on the premises at night when. the licensee was absent. Mr Scott indicated that lie would enter a formal plea of not guilty so as to elicit some evidence, and that he then would change the plea to guilty. . “I feel certain m my own mind, said Mr Scott, when the Magistrate had convicted Dunn and Simson, “that there was a plot laid for Dunn. There is a vendetta between certain Labour organisations and Dunn at the present time, because Dunn will not sack a particular servant. There are pickets up and down outside that hotel day and night, and I feel certain that five seamen and a friend were sent to the hotel that'night for the purpose of getting liquor, and that as soon as they got into the hotel the police station was telephoned.” Mr Scott said he knew that was no mitigation of the offence, but he wished to point out that this was a trap which had been wilfully laid for Dunn. Simson was fined £5 and Dunn £2.