EFFECT OF STRIKE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 238, 9 May 1933, Page 6

EFFECT OF STRIKE

u Police Lay Charges

i ALLEGED ASSAULTS \ ; Press Association.— Copyright ! Wellington, May S. Several eases alleged by the police to ! have arisen out of the seamen's strike ' came up for hearing in the Magistrate's : Court to-day before Mr. E. Page. S.M. | Four charges alleged assaults and one i an attempt to cast adrift the tug Natone. | Patrick Joseph Ryan, laboured aged 2(5. j pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting | Ned Peko Ryan and was fined £5 and | ordered to pay court costs. He was al- | lowed two weeks in which to find the i money. j Spencer Leo Parsloe, fireman aged 33, I was remanded until May 17 on charges of ! assaulting Robert Renkin and attempt - j ing to cast adrift the tug Natone. He i pleaded not guilty. Bail in the sum of j £75 was granted. | Pleas of guilty to charges of drunkenj ness but not guilty to a charge of asj saulting Alfred Ernest Alexander Pickering were entered by Cyril James SinI clair, seaman aged 27, and Adolph Fredi erick Hansen, seaman aged 46. Both were j remanded until Wednesday, bail in the | sum of £lO with one surety of £lO being ! allowed. ! Mr. F. W. Ongley, who appeared for ! Sinclair, said that according to his instructions the charge of assault did not 'arise out of the shipping dispute. | Sub-Inspector Martin said the police jwere satisfied the charge did rise out I of the seamen's strike. SEAMEN FINED AT NELSON -Press Association— Copyright Nelson. May 8. Two seamen, John Leslie Grindley and i Basil Pocock, were each lined £3 for us- ! ing insulting language on the wharf on ! Friday night prior to the departure of the Arahura for Wellington. They were also ordered 10 enter into a recognisance to keep the peace for six months and to I find one surety of £lO, in default six | months' imprisonment.