STRIKE OFFENCES.
AMENDMENT IX THE lA.W. The Police Offences Amendment Bill, which seeks to proviib* penalties lor imkwful intimidation such as was practised at Waihi in the strike period early tliis vcar, wis reported) froin *be Statutes Revision Committee to Uie House, of Koprcsoiitaiires ycstaiiay. One of the forbidden acts was persistent followiiii:, the words of tho Bill bong: "Persistently follows such other liersim jilmnt from' nlacc to »k«-e.' - lnp Statutes Revision Committee . have struck mit tiie word -'persistently. ' ll.n committee also struck out the. loilolvillß sub-clause: "Attending at or near the. house or place where a person resides, or works, or carric, on business, or happens to Ik>, or the approach to such house or pl««-, in'onler merely to obtain or communicate information, shall not be deemed a watching or besetting.' Watehinp or besotting is deling as all offence elsewhere im die Act. ; AH tiic clause -proscribing a constables power of a-rcst, the only new feature of which was the power to arrest persons amity of offences named in the Act, has also been struck out.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1917, 27 November 1913, Page 9
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177STRIKE OFFENCES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1917, 27 November 1913, Page 9
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