THREATENING MOB

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 65, 10 December 1930, Page 12

THREATENING MOB

Angry Demonstration EVICTED TENANT Scuffles With Constables SCENE IN CHRISTCHURCH By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, December 9. Remarkable scenes were witnessed in Bealey Avenue this afternoon when members of the unemployed who had earlier been taking part in demonstrations, assembled in front of a house, from which it was stated, the occupant, an unemployed man, was being evicted. This man at a meeting of unemployed in Victoria Square had explained his case. A collection was taken up to pay “legal expenses,” and realised 21/6. Then about 150 men proceeded to Bealey Avenue with the declared intention of preventing the eviction and a crowd of several hundred persons was quickly attracted to the scene: The unemployed assumed a threatening attitude, and the police took from one of them a heavy piece of wood. . Many policemen were present carrying batons. They were posted strongly from the gateway to the back door of the house. , . . One or two scuffles occurred, but nothing very serious happeued, fhe unemployed being prevented from entering the gateway. . , , , . ■ When the tenant left the house to join the crowd in the street he was loudly cheered. . , The house is a substantial one in a very desirable neighbourhood.