CASES OF THE STRIKE CHIEFS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1934, 17 December 1913, Page 8

CASES OF THE STRIKE CHIEFS.

HOLLAND & YOUNG

APPEALS TO STAND OVER,

Strike cases—those pending' against' Henry Holland and \V. T. Voimj.;— were, mentioned in the Supreme Court ~ iii* Chambers vesterdav before his Honour flic Chief Justice (Sir Hobert Stout). In the case against Holland, it will be remembered that 'the magistrate (Mr. W. 0. Jiiddell) dismissed the information, which alleged incitement, on the ground that tho evidence disclosed .no incitement under Section GS of the Police Offences Act, 190 S. Tho magistrate took this view because it appeared that Holland had merely repeated language which he used sonic years ago at Broken Hill. Against tho decision 'of the magistrate the Crown appealed.' ... In Young's case, the facts were, just the reverse. The magistrate had held that the words used by Young at a public meeting at tho Basin Reserve on Simday, October 29, amounted to incitement to resist the police, and Young was accordingly sentenced to throe months' imprisonment. An appeal was then lodged by Young and he was released on bail. '■; Yesterday the Solicitor-General (Mr. .T. W. Salmond, K.C.) asked that tearing of the appeal in Holland's case should be fixed for Saturday next, and ho desired that Young's appeal should be taken at tho same time. Messrs. T. M. Wilford. P, Levi, and P. J. O'ltegan appeared for the accused, and raised opposition to the So-licitor-General's application. It was admitted that the Crown was' within its rights in askinr: for a fixture in Holland's case. In Young's case, however, tho case on appeal was not signed unt'l December C, and tho appellant was entitled to fourteen days within which to transmit tlie appeal"to the Registrar of the Supremo Court. Young was- therefore within his rights in withholding his appeal until noon on Saturday, December 20. The statute required that tho hearing'should follow at "the next practicable sitting of the Supremo Court," which in line case (so it was contended) would be, after the vacation. In regard to Holland's case, it was pointed .out that in tho event of the magistrate's decision being reversed and tho case boing remitted to him, an appeal (by Holland) on law would probably bo.the result, and such an appeal could not of course bo heard until after the holidays.' It was submitted, therefore, that both .matters should stand ovor. Tho Solicitor-General admitted • that Young's, caso need not be transmitted to the Registrar until December 20, and' then it was, at. least, doubtful if "tho next practicable sitting" of the Court could be on tin's sido of the vacation. His Honour, after giving the question consideration, said that while tho position was open to doubt, the business could not be called urgent, and both cases could therefore stand oicr until after tho vacation. _ ■