DESPERATE FIGHT
POLICE AND UNEMPLOYED ANTI-EVICTION AFFRAY. SEVERAL INJURED. Newcastle, June 14. Nine police and about 20 unemployed pickets were injured, some severely, in a desperate anti-evic-tion fight at a house at Highfleld to-day. The arrests total 30. The affray started when a small army of police descended on a house with the intention of evicting a tenant. Unemployed were in possession of the cottage and were armed with all sorts of weapons, chiefly pointed sticks. The police rushed the place brandishing batons and were met by fierce opposition. Blows were exchanged which felled one after another, accompanied by the wildest shouting and curses. It was not long before a number of the combatants were on the ground bleeding and insensible. Every minute a blood-bespattered man ran from the house taking refuge in the crowd of onlookers. The police task was unenviable, but they soon had the upper hand. A brick thrown at a policeman missed its mark and felled an onlooker. The battle ended as suddenly as it started. Ambulance men worked for an
hour rendering first aid and conveying the injured to the hospital.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 154, 15 June 1932, Page 8
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