Police To Consider Disorderly Scenes

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30981, 10 February 1966, Page 9

Police To Consider Disorderly Scenes

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Feb. 9. Auckland senior police officers will consider carefully reports on disorderly scenes at Saturday night’s performances of the singer Tom Jones in the Town Hall. While it is not likely that action will be taken against any person who may have been involved, the reports will be studied as a guide to

measures to be taken in the future to preserve order. A girl jumped on to the stage from the upper floor—a distance of about 12 feet—to be thrown off the stage by attendants employed by the promoters. Another girl attempting to do the same thing, hung from the upper floor and then fell on to the stage. She, too, was thrown from the stage. Superintendent P. A. Byrne said that whenever the police anticipated any sort of disorder at a gathering of the public, it was their duty to be there to preserve the peace. For that reason police were on duty on Saturday. There was, however, an onus on the producers of any show to supply sufficient ushers, he said. If the disorder reached such a stage as to amount to a riot, it would be the duty : of the police to stop the show, |he said.