A SHARP SENTENCE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 963, 13 March 1917, Page 10

A SHARP SENTENCE.

| WATERSIDER SENT TO GAOL. t INTIMIDATING A FELLOWWORKER. i Press Association. i AUCKLAND, March 13. At the Police Court Mr E. C. , Cuttcn, S.M., sentenced Oliver Noakcs, a watersider, to eleven , months imprisonment for breach of the additional war regulations, by , publishing an utterance intended to , interfere with the proper unloading of the steamer Westralia. The Magistrate found that there was an understanding on the part of a section of the walersidcrs not to engage for work before 8 a.m., whereas the award time was 7.30; that when an ex-president of the Union broke the understanding by engaging before, the defendant made a remark to him which the Magistrate considered to be a threat. The Magistrate held that the remark was intended to delay engagement till 8 a.m., and consequently delay the unloading of the vessel.