ALLEGATION OF BESETTING

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1933, Page 7

ALLEGATION OF BESETTING

WELLINGTON MEN REMANDED. ' RELIEF WORKERS’ STRIKE ECHO. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, July 18. Seven men arrested as a consequence of the part they are alleged to have taken in the relief workers’ strike appeared in court to-day. Charles Morris Brooks, aged 37, Charles Frederick Baker, alias Burrows, aged 49, John Harvey Blair, aged 37, Richard Henry ‘Webb, aged 28, Eric George Pocock, aged 25, Thomas Ridout, aged 51, and .William Benjamin. Arthur Wilkinson, aged 37, were charged with unlawfully besetting a place where relief workers were-'en-gaged, with a view to compelling them to abstain from doing acts they had a legal right to. do. Blair, Webb, Pocock and Brooks were also charged with’ taking part in a procession, and Blair with inciting to lawlessness. Counsel for the defence sought a remand on. the charges relating to besetting and/inciting as he "required, time to prepare a defence. It would be argued, he said, that the accused were -only doing- whati they were legally entitled ' to do.

, When the police opposed the remand unsuccessfully they intimated that it was not worth while proceeding with the other charges meanwhile. A remand was granted, with bail at £75 each.