ALLEGED INTIMIDATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17948, 28 November 1932, Page 2

ALLEGED INTIMIDATION

FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE «i i*

LEADER SENT TO GAOL (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. Eov the first time in Now Zealand ' men have been charged with following other persons with two or more peri sons in u disorderly manner with a ■ view to wrongly compelling them to 7 abstain from doing anything which ~ tliev had a legal right to do, six Wai- ’ tara freezing works eiiiployees being -■ convicted by Mr. It. M. 'T a I Yr the New Plymouth Police Court yes--7 Described by the" magistrate as the main trouhle-ipakpr.. a Maori, lislier Kapa, was sgittenced to imprisonment for one month. The other five, Clarence Kopies, John Mallard Crowe, Richard Paerau I Paltridge, Richard Samuel Kindpck, = a nd HarrV Trott, were each fined pi, l which, on the application of Mr. L. M. Moses, for the defence, was increased to £5 Is in view of the possibility or ~ an appeal, in default 14 days’ imN prisonment. The men were allowed a Z week to pay. The defence was a denial of the 7 truth of the evidence given by wit- * nesses for the prosecution, but the ” magistrate said he did not believe the . story told by the defence. It was graining his credulity too much.