THE NOAKES CASE
REMISSION OF SENTENCE URGED. Prose AssociationAUCKLAND, March 27. A deputation waited on the Hon. J. 4 Hanan (it was headed by Mr Richards, secretary of the W atersiders Union) and asked for remission of the sentence on Oliver Noakes, a member of the union, of eleven months’ imprisonment for conduct calculated to interfere with the loading of a vessel and using threatening language to another watersider. It was urged that the sentence was excessive. '
The Minister said he did not approve in general of interfering with decisions of Stipendiary Magistrates, In Noakes’s case, an appeal had been lodged, and that closed his mouth, hut he would obtain the documents and give the matter every-consideration. _ The Minister was asked to expedite the hearing of the appeal.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9620, 28 March 1917, Page 7
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128THE NOAKES CASE New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9620, 28 March 1917, Page 7
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