LABOUR DAY, INCIDENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 948, 15 October 1910, Page 3

LABOUR DAY, INCIDENTS.

AUCKLAND CROWD LIVELY.

.It appears that tho crowd at the Labour Day sports at. the Auckland Domain behaved on- the- wholevery badly, and succeeded', in ' making the work, of -the " officials and the police-: about: twice as arduous as it should have'been.. Tho morbid curiosity.; o£ a crowd: in the case .of.accident,' the.'very existence: of'which' it is .impossible; to understand,. wa's r well; illustrated daring the afternoon, (states an Auckland "exchange). l ' A lady 'who wassuffering from 'the resultof ;a ' fall, was. carried into the secretary's tent to be. attended to.'."Very 'few 'people' knew'- of 'the occurrence ' at ' tho. time,, but.'iu; a . - few moments a crowd of some' hundreds had gathered round tho door of the -tent the chances of . fresh air-' reaching :the rsuf--, ferer ..being: almost! nil. . : For more" than two 'hours the:tent was -surrounded, 'and; long..'-, after : the!. greater: numbei : of; the people had' left the ground, . there-re-mained about 200 people to see the lady removed to the hospital.• Another incident in' which the crowd ; became deeply'; interested',: a man, -being under the impression, that, somebody was picking* his' gockets, caught, hold of a small boy, and accused "nim of the ..deed. . ;ThingSr,were '. assuming a lively: tono ' when " the- police put in an appearance, and conveyed', man and boy to the pavilion. came!.of the'investigation,, and. when the ' man ' appear-: ed,' surrounded :tyre: the :-pdlioo,.; he, "was' greeted . with loud . Hooting' .and' hissing;and was pretty : roughly, jostled until he wisely, .faded away into the. distancei ■