THE CANTERBURY CAMP.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 278, 21 November 1913, Page 6

THE CANTERBURY CAMP.

FB.EE LABOTTKEKS AND " SPECIALS. ' ONE THOUSAND MEN WASTED. (By Telegraph. —Spcriiil to -'Star.' , ) CHRTSTCHrHCI!. Thursday. Free labourers as they -i<rn on are beinp quartered at the .Vldington show grounds, where they out. -lcop and associate with special constables, and really onjoy the privileges uf the |>uid Governspecini police duty. Thrre U unich comment on the fnct "that the free labourers are being billeted in the same camp as the special constables, and one critic bus remarked that it is difficult -to tell the labourers from the preservers of law and order. Current rumour i- to the effect that no attempt will 'ne made to invade Lyttelton with free labour and specials until the tvhite-badged police army reaches .1 ihou-iin.l. There are at the Addington camp to-night approximately fiOO men. made up of 150 infantry or short baton men. foot specials, and about 400 mounted men. There are 100 bell tents erected in the camp, and to-night forces arrived from Cheviot and Omihi, while men have arrived this afternoon from as fsr south as Waimate. It 19 expected that no movi- will be made towards the port until Monday. To-day a number of young men from offices in the city and several solicitors were enrolled for service in Lyttelton and Christehurch, either as free hib-urera or as specials, and very few offices of any size huve not been drawn on. The banks have offered men, and if the strike continue? many business place* will be shorthanded.