STONES AND PICKETS
- . RIOT OF TWO THOUSAND WORKLESS CLASH WITH POLICE DEMONSTRATION AT PERTH. (United Piees Association—By Electric Telegraph Oopyriebt.l Received 11.45 a.m. to-day. PERTH, March 7. Several! arrests were made and eight peresons were treated in hospital for in,juris as the result of a violent dash between unemployed and pel ice outside the Treasury building. The police were forced to draw batons and charge the crowd repeatedly to disperse them. The unemployed used stones and pieces of wood/ in retaliation. Many thousands of citizens watered from the road and also the. windows of business houses. The disturbance followed a meeting of unemployed' at which demands were made for three meals daily,' beds and free dental! and medical attention. Two thousand! malrahed to the Treasury and in order to free the traffic the police rushed them back.
The unemployed, resenting this, commenced to fight. Pickets were torn from the fence of the Government gardens. Mounted men, however, took command Midi rode the rioters down. The police casualties _ were confined mainly to cuts and bruises, though one had his nose broken.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 7 March 1931, Page 5
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180STONES AND PICKETS Hawera Star, Volume L, 7 March 1931, Page 5
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