As the unemployed crossed Gloucester Street into Manchester Street on their way to the Christchurch Citv Conned for the recent- demonstration a inotor--ir came round the comer, and one of the workless was bumped by it and sent sprawling (says the “Sun”). He was luckv, for the car driver pulled up ust in time to Stop the machine from -uniting him over. The driver also was lucky. He was immediately surrounded ■ shouting men. whose gesticulations vere violept. But -their protest went further, although for a moment it lobked as if there were going' to' be trouble.
As an indication of the extent of the tobacco industry in the district, the quantity of tobacco shipped from the port of Motueka during 1927 totalled 672 bales and 70 cases, compared with t!3S cases in 19—b (reports an excnanjjc) • A considerable area is down again this season.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 88, 12 January 1928, Page 7
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