PANDEMONIUM AT PETONE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 1 August 1911, Page 5

PANDEMONIUM AT PETONE

THE NEW TERRITORIALS

BY TELEGRAPH—PIiiiSS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, August 1. Some 200 of the newiy-enrolied Territorials in the Hutt Valley received summonses to attend for medical inspection last night.

The summonses were obeyed with a most unmilitary-like display of riotous insubordination. For an hour before the appointed time a rabble of youths marched about the streets of Petone shouting, hooting, and tin banging. Arrived at their destination, they defied all attempts of Sergeant-Major Millet to range them in any semblance of order; and for a time they took charge of the proceedings. They laughed, boo-hooed, and hooted at the Sergeant-Major, throwing mud at him freely.

He wisely kept his temper, and, after one mud-slinger had received chastisement at his hands, the examination was proceeded with under difficulties.

The worst culprits appeared to be boys 16 or 17 years of age.