DESIRE TO GO TO GAOL.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20788, 23 February 1933, Page 12

DESIRE TO GO TO GAOL.

.'Vv ' " ;'' : '. ; );j (rimes AseocuTioK Tsixdam)' ALTKLANP,. Febnwiy 22. While Queen street, Auckland, was crowded with shoppers about. 3 p.m. yesterday, a young man'threw a'large stone into the of the government Tourist Bureau,' smashing plate glass valued at £4O, and damaging a large stuffed swordfish. - A erowd gathered,' but he made uo attempt to run away. An elderly man poked him _in the ribs with hip umbrella, and asked him why he throw the stone, but he" stood 'his ground. A departmental officer came oat and asked, "Who did that?" The young ■ maa immediately admitted throwing the stone, saying that he was out o£ work and had broken the window as a protfl&t' against being tone to a relief camp in the -country, for hi». family in Auckland, was • dependent ■ on ' him. Bather tha-n 'go' into 'the country in' such circumstances he bad seme to the police, station a»4 had aelbd to be lodged is the colls."I might as well be in v prison. as in a relief camp," ho said, m had been ! refuped admission to the ce% jso he walked down 'Queen strwfc witn % ttone in his pocket, and threw it afe a irefeturfc of protest at the most imposing window he could find l in a Government building. • "And now fetch your policeman," he said in conclusion. A policeman way called and he was taken into custody.