INTERFERING WITH LOADING OPERATIONS
APPEAL FOR REMISSION OF ' SENTENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association/ Auckland, March 27. A deputation, headed by Mr. Richards (secretary of the Watersiders' Union), waited on the Hon. J. A. Hanan, and asked for remission , of the sentence on Oliver Noakes, a member of the union, of eleven months' imprisonment for conduct calculated to interfere with the loading of a vessel and using threatening language to another watersider. It was urged that the sentence was excessive. The Minister eaid he did not approve in 'general of interfering ( with decisions of Stipendiary Magistrates, In Noakes's case, an appeal had been lodged, and that closed his mouth, but he would obtain the documents and give the matter every consideration.
■ The Minister was asked to fixpedite the hearing of the appeal.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3039, 28 March 1917, Page 6
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130INTERFERING WITH LOADING OPERATIONS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3039, 28 March 1917, Page 6
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