RIOT CHARGES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1932, Page 6

RIOT CHARGES

SEVERAL SENTENCED. gaol for three months. I By Telegraph— ter tress Association) AUCKLAND. April 28. The Police. Court wa* crowded to the doors this morning when nearly fifty men were charged with variou.' offences arising out of the rioting arid looting. Many of those men had been remanded in custody. The hearing of the charges in expected to take two days. Three seamen, Harry Pasijuill (3D, Patrick Gallagher (39), Michael 0 Hara, (28) admitted inciting lawlessness when the riot was at its height, and were sentenced to three months - gaol. Counsel asked the Magistrate to antedate the sentences, as 'he men had been waiting in gaol. The Magistrate : No, 1 only wish I could post date it. Reginald Morton (27) an electrician, manned, with five, children, was found with a ’string of heads which he said he picked up. Magistrate Hunt said if he were innocent it was his. duty to return the beads. He was sentenced to three months".

Oswald Bourbeau ( r o0) convicted of assaulting. a constable, was sentenced to three months’. He said he was one oi the founders of the Communist Party, but he had resigned hist December, owing to .a disagreement over tactics. He would not deny to If Vug an audience on March 27th that they must tight to overthrow capitalism, with all weapons, constitutional and otherwise.