UPROAR AT POLITICAL MEETING IN SYDNEY HALL
(Bee. 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Uproar many times interrupted a public meeting in a city hall last night when the Labour Party launched its campaign to support the nationalisation of the trading banks. Continuous cheering and booing drowned the speakers’ voices. The police moved among the people at the meeting, during which the police, fire and ambulance headquarters received bogus calls to go to the hall. Three ambulances arrived while young men in'the body of the hall and in the gallery were heckling the principal speaker, the Minister of Post-war Reconstruction, Mr Dedman. Later two fire brigades and a squad of nolice on motor-cycles arrived. The police several times spoke to the demonstrators.
At one stage a score of people were leaping over chairs trying' to reach a persistent interiector, who sat tight in his seat and resisted all efforts to remove him.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 October 1947, Page 4
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