STRIKE ECHOES.
LEVY ON BUTTER-FAT. [Per Press Association.] Pahiatua, January 5. The Bush dairying companies at a meeting held in Pahiatua oa Saturday decided to make a levy up to £d in the pound on October's butter-fat as a contribution to the expenses of the Wellington Citizens' Defence Committee during the strike. RECALCITRANT SEAMEN. . Wellington, January la. * Application was made in the Magistrate's Court to-day to reduce the bail (£10) in the case of seamen from the steamer Opawa who seme six weeks
ago were committed for trial on a charge of refusing duty on the high seas. There were fourteen men, and except in. the case of one, who is a prohibited immigrant, counsel asked that bail be reduced to £5; That would mean a total of £65; which it was stated, the Seamen's Union would deposit. The application was granted.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1914, Page 4
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142STRIKE ECHOES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1914, Page 4
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