PASSIVE RESISTERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 13 May 1912, Page 8

PASSIVE RESISTERS.

MEETING IN WELLINGTON

THE SPEAKERS "COUNTED OUT."

Bf TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.

WELLINGTON, May 12. It Avas in. the minds of anti-militarists to held a meeting of protest in the Post Office square this afternoon. They held their meeting, and it was a meeting of protest, but the protest Avas mainly against the anti-militarists.

Various speakers essayed to address a couple of hundred persons, the majority ol Avhom were evidently there for the fun they could get. A large section Avas much more concerned Avith enquiring if "anybody had seen Kelly." than Avith asking if anybody "heard Hickey." In the intervals between the alleged musical numbers, small side discussions with the anti-militarists provided entertainment, and an ardent photographer also created a diversion.

The meeting, which commenced in disorder, proceeded in discord, and after the speakers had been counted out several times, it terminated in confusion.