EXTRA POLICE
Six extra policemen were brought to the Horticultural Hall after a heated exchange between one of the arrested motor-cyclists and Inspector D. J. Hamilton yesterday afternoon.
The exchange occurred during the first adjournment when several of the motorcyclists rose to go outside. Inspector Hamilton, with the head of the Christchurch police district (Chief Superintendent G. Tait) standing beside him, suggested they should sit down. One of the motor-cyclists angrily replied the police did not have the right to tell them where they could go, or whether they should sit down or stand up. The group stayed in the hall. About five minutes later six extra policemen arrived to supplement the five or six already there, and took up positions around the hall. The motor-cyclists took the news of their conviction without any loud vocal expression, although there was later a short round of applause for Mr D. M. Palmer, a defence lawyer, after his references to an article in a Sunday newspaper. During the second adjournment, a group of about 15 motor-cyclists gathered around two plain-clothes constables holding a still camera and a video-tape camera outside the hall and argued with them.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33460, 15 February 1974, Page 1
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