SPECIALS ENROL AT WESTPORT
ANXIETY FOR RE-OPENING OF MINES. Press Association. WESTPORT, December 18. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, before Mr Simpson, J.P., Dan Alexander, a member of tho Westport strike committee, was lined £2 and costs or fourteen days’ imprisonment, for applying the word “ scab ” to a local business man. Frank Hagen, for a similar offence, was fined 10s, end costs, or forty-eight hours. Alexander asked for three months in which to pay, stating ho had done no work for eight weeks, but ho was given merely a fortnight. Tho enrolment of special constables is going on briskly in Westport, and it is the intention of the' Authorities to enrol up to 500. There is a strong feeling in the mining communities in favour of reopening the mines, and it is anticipated that as soon as the shipping companies decide to send boats to "Westport there will be little or no difficulty in arranging for coal cargoes.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8608, 19 December 1913, Page 8
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