AUCKLAND RIOTERS
THE COURT’S SENTENCES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.' AUCKLAND, Feb. 12. “If you hacl set out to do yourselves a bad turn, you could not have been more successful,” said the magistrate (Mr Woodward; to-day when sentencing those arrested for participating in Tuesday’s unemployed clash with the police. “Such a demonstration loses you public sympathy, and you cannot afford that.”
The magistrate said that he would imake allowance for the present trouble and excitement of tljf moment and the fact that the majority of the accused wore usually respectable citizens whom he did not think would repeat the offence. He stated that those who had thrown bricks may even have committed murder. Henry Powell (21), fireman, for obstructing the police, was sentenced to a month’s gaol. Three others were fined £5 and one £7 10s, and another was bound over. Other charges are being heard.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 14 February 1931, Page 6
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