A HUTT VALLEY "PUSH."
TERRITORIALS CAUSE A RIOT AT PETONE.
(press association telegram.) WELLINGTON. August 1. feome 200 newly-enrolled Territorials m the Hntt Valley received a summons to attend tor medical inspection last night. Ihe summonses were obeyed but n\most unmilitary-!ike display of riotous insubordination occurred For ai Vu 1 i OUr c beforc the appointed time, a labble of youths marched about the streets of Petone, shoutinc, hooting, and tin-banging, and when they arrh-ed at their destination they defied all the attempts of feergeant-Major Millet to range them into any semblance of order. tor a time they took charge of the proceedmgs. They laughed, boohed, and hooted at the SergeantMajor, throwing mud at him freely. Ho wisely kept his temper, and after one of the mud-shngers had received chastisement at his hands, the examination was proceeded with under difficulties The worst culprits appeared
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14111, 2 August 1911, Page 6
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