Echo of Waitara Disturbance
“WATCHERS” PINED Per Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. The criterion as to whether tho men were there out of idle curiosity or with tho object of bringing pressure to bear on free labourers, was their action subsequent to the tijno when they wero advised by the police to disperse to their homes, said Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., in the New Plymouth Police Court to-day, when convicting several former unionists of “watching” free labourers in their bunkhouso at Waitara freezing works on tho night of January 7. The previous prosecutions should have been a warning, no added. L. S. Waters was fined £lO, Jack Hook £5, L. Dombroski and T. B. Ewens, junr., £2. T. Johnston was admitted to probation for a year and Peter Kawc and Kahei Ivarena convicted and discharged. Another case was adjourhed and the charges against eight others dismissed. During tho disturbance the hunkhouse was bombarded with stones and two motor cycles were smashed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7065, 26 January 1933, Page 6
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