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STRIKING WATERSIDERS NICY PLYMOUTH INCIDENTS (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. The loading of meat into the Inter Haramea yesterday and last night by 150 farmers was not devoid of incident. Hundreds of tacks were strewn on the main road to the port during the night, and several motorists had lyres punctured, causing the police to divert farmers driving away from the wharves at 10 o’clock to use a track along the beach. In addition, when a member of a farmers' gang investigated, lie found that his motor cycle had been practically wrecked. Not knowing where to leave the machine at the wharf he lefl it at a building a few chains up the road. Later it was found that the bicycle had suffered severely. All the cables were broken, and the generator had completely disappeared. The ignition wires had been cut and the caps to the tanks taken. The controls were bent right down over the handlebars and the headlamp'twisted round.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17949, 29 November 1932, Page 6
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165MINOR SABOTAGE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17949, 29 November 1932, Page 6
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