FRACAS ON CANEFIELDS
PARTIES COME TO BLOWS
I DISPUTE WITH ITALIANS FEELING RUNNING HIGH. ‘United Brea* Association —Bv Electric Telegrupo opyriglit.) Received 11.15 a.m. to-day. BRISBANE, July 30. Cane-knives and bottles flourished in a brawl between British and Italian cane-cutters at cross roads near Innisfail and feeling is running high. The trouble arose over filling a vacancy in a mixed gang. The British chief ganger selected a fellow-coun-tryman, but the Italians wanted an Italian and they refused to allow the Britisher to sleep at the barracks. A 1 >ottie was thrown and a fracas followed.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 30 July 1930, Page 5
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95FRACAS ON CANEFIELDS Hawera Star, Volume L, 30 July 1930, Page 5
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