BOYCOTT ALLEGATION

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1934, Page 7

BOYCOTT ALLEGATION

WELLINGTON HOTEL PROPRIETOR.

REFUSAL TO DISMISS EMPLOYEE.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A statement that certain labour organisations were boycotting the Carlton Hotel was made in the Magistrate’s Court today by Mr. J. A. Scott when addressing the magistrate on the question of penalty in a case in which the licensee, Samuel Dunn, and the barman, James Simson, were convicted of selling liquor after hours. The police evidence was that some men unlawfully obtained liquor on the premises at night when the licensee was absent Mr. Scott indicated he would enter a formal plea of not guilty so-as to elicit some evidence and that he would then change the plea to guilty, “I feel certain in my own mind, £aia Mr Scott when the magistrate had convicted Dunn and Simson, “that there was a plot laid for Dunn. There is a vendetta between certain labour organisations and Dunn at the present time because Dunn will not dismiss a particular servant. There are pickets up and down outside that hotel day and night, and I feel certain that five seamen ana a friend were sent to the hotel that night for the purpose of getting liquor and that as soon as they got into the hotel the police station was telephoned.” Mr. Scott said '.e knew that was no mitigation of the offence, but he wished to point out that this was a trap which was wilfully laid for Dunn. Simson was fined £5 and Dunn was fined £2.