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PREVENTING MEN FROM PERFORMING LAWFUL BUSINESS FREEZING WORKERS FINED
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New Plymouth, Sunday. For the first time" in New Zealand, men have been charged with following other persons with two or more persons in a disorderly manner with the object of wrongfully compelling them to abst.ain from doing anything which they had a legal right to do. Six Waitara freezing worlcs employees were convieted hy Mr- R. W. Tait, S.M., at the Police- Court, New Plymouth yesterday. Described by the Magistrate as the main trouble maker, a Maori, Fisher Kapa, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. The other five, Clarence Rolls, John Mallard Crowe, Riehard Paerau, Richard Samuel Kindrisk and Harry Frost, were each fined £5, which on the application of Mr. L. M. Moss for the defence, was increased to £5 ls in view of the possihility of an appeal, or in default 14 days' imprisonjngnt. The men were allowed a week in which tp pay. The defence was a denial of the truth of the evidence given hy witnesses for the prosecution, but the Magistrate said that he did not believe the story of the defendants. It I was straining his credulity too much.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 391, 28 November 1932, Page 5
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202UNUSUAL CHARGE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 391, 28 November 1932, Page 5
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