GANGLAND TACTICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 64, 13 October 1930, Page 7

GANGLAND TACTICS.

YOUNG MEN FINED. SETTING FIRE TO BRIDGE. AUCKLAND. October 13. Two young farmers from the Bay of Plenty were sentence ; in the Supreme Court to-day for setting Tire to the Kopouroa bridge, between To Puke and Papamoa. They were George Ernest King, aged 21, and Hoy Tannahill MoLeod, aged 23, both desc"ibetl as of highly-re-spected families. Mr. Justice Peed said it appeared that the bridge had been fired in order to prevent residents of one part of the district attending a public meeting called for the purpose of fixing a central site for a proposed hall. This attempt was, in principle, the same as the action of the gangsters in Chicago, and could not be tolerated in this country. According to the police reports, the action of i the two accused was approved by a section of the community. Mini there was a tendency to lionise them. He hoped that the tendon 1 ';' wa : not shared by intelligent residents of the district. Accused were liable to ! i imprisonment, but. in view of the youth and good character, ho would not send them to gaol. > McLeod was fined £SO and £2O costs and damages, in default six months' imprisonment. King was fined £2o and £l2 damages, in de- j fault three months' imprisonment. j