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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3241, 11 December 1930, Page 6

After the first meeting of unemployed in Cathedral Square on Saturday morning had been broken up by the police, the leaders sought to give their addresses a little further along the roadway. One man who had not spoken previously stepped on to the box and declared that it was not right that the workers should be debarred 'from holding public meetings. During his address a woman a few yards away began to get restless. “Get down from there, Ben!” she called, but he did not hear. A sergeant of police near by, who, with others, had failed to get the leaders to move on, grasped the glorious opportunity. He quietly warned the woman that she had better get her husband off the box. “I’ll get him. Make way there,” she urged, and went to the front. “Ben, come down from there,” she directed. “It’s all right, dear,” he answered, . immediately ceasing his speech and stepping from the box to join his wife and child on the outskirts of the crowd. “Come away and leave them. There are plenty of other men there,” she adjured her husband. The crowd, though in an excited mood, appreciated the humour of the situation in which one woman had succeeded where a dozen police had failed.— Christchurch Times.