CLASH WITH POLICE
UNEMPLOYED SENTENCED
LOSS OF PUBLIC SYMPATHY
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. "If you had set out to do yourselves a bad turn you could not have been more successful," said Mr. Woodward, S.M., to-day when sentencing those arrested "for participating in Tuesday's unemployed clash with the police. "Such a demonstration deprives you of public sympathy, and you cem 't afford that." , , •■■ ■ 1 The Magistrate said that he would make allowance for the present trouble and tho excitement of the moment, and the fact that the majority of the accused were usually respectable citizens, whom he did not think would repeat the offence. He stated that those who had thrown bricks might even have committed murder. ; Henry Powell (21), a fireman, for obstructing the police, was sentenced to one 'month's gaol. Three others were jlned £5, one man £7 10s, and another was bound over to keep the peace. '■
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 15
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152CLASH WITH POLICE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 15
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