WHARF BRAWL IN AUCKLAND
Fight With Bottles And Knives SEVERAL SEAMEN INJURED (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. November 16. Several seamen suffered cuts from broken bottles .and knives wielded tonight in a brawl on King’s Wharf, Auckland, between British and Scandinavian seamen from ships berthed nearby. Between 20 and 30 men were involved in the fracas. A number of the seamen were later treated at the Auckland Hospital. One of them had a broken wrist, and another two knife wounds in his left leg. Police arrested six men and one woman.
Wharf workers described it as the worst waterfront fight for years. At the height of the battle, which lasted for 15 minutes before the police arrived. one man threw a crate of milk bottles.
“There must have been about 25 men fighting at one stage,” said a bystander. “I saw two men kicked as soon as they went down, and another was stabbed with a long-bladed knife.”
The melee is reported to have begun at 6.15 p.m., when Danish seamen arrived at the wharf gates in a taxi with two women. One of a group of British sailors standing nearby went across to the taxi, and within minutes the two groups were fighting furiously.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28128, 17 November 1956, Page 10
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