ORDERED TO CAMP.
LABOURER'S STRANGE PROTEST. MEANT TO SMASH WINDOWS. DISORDERLY IN QUEEN STREET. An admission that he intended to smash windows in a Queen Street establishment last night as a protest to being ordered into a relief camp was made by Norman James Dudson, aged 36, labourer, when he appeared in the Police Court this morning, charged with being disorderly while drunk in Queen Street. Constable Jamieson said Dudson was drunk and was throwing sods of clay at shop windows when he arrested him. ■"What did you do that for?" asked the magistrate, Mr. W. R. McKean. Dudson: I meant to smash the-window's as a protest, as I was yesterday ordered to a camp. I got a job last week and am unfit for camp, yet I was told yesterday I would have to go to camp. Dudson was fined £2. ■ i
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 260, 2 November 1932, Page 3
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