WATERFRONT EPISODE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 243, 11 September 1934, Page 2

WATERFRONT EPISODE

POLICEMEN THREATENED. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Sept. 10. Last night three intoxicated men from the steamer Port Hobart, resenting being spoken to by a constable when they were drinking and using obscene language on the wharf, attempted to throw him and a sergeant into the water. When a taxi-cab arrived to take them to the police station the whole crew of the vessel turned out, informing the taxi-man that if he took a hand in the proceedings his car would go overboard. The driver wisely drove away and picked up as many police reinforcements as lie could find, and these finally subdued the principals and took them to the police station. To-day, the prosecutor stated that if the sergeant had not come to the constable's assistance and used his baton there would have been serious trouble. The offenders, Donald Martin, aged 25 George McKenzie, aged 22, and John McLeod, aged 25, were fined £3 and ordered to make good the damage done to the taxi and the policemen’s uniforms, and were directed to be detained till 4 o’clock this afternoon, half an hour before their boat sails.