AN AUCKLAND EVICTION
ALLEGED ASSAULT ON BAILIFF COURT PROCEEDINGS (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, This Day. Fifteen men were charged at the Police Court to-day, as a sequel to the eviction of a woman from a house in Norfolk street, with assaulting a bailiff, and procuring lawlessness. All pleaded not guilty. The bailiff, in evidence, said that as ho started to force his way in a voice inside said: “Come on, boys. We will give them a fight for it.” Inside the Se he saw about a dozen men with cudgels. He called the police, who demanded that- the men put the cudgels down. One said: “It’s no good, boys. They are too many for us.” The bailiff then entered unopposed. The doors were all barricaded and the windows wore nailed. Cross-examined, witness said the fact that his warrant was against a woman with five young children had nothing to do with him. Mr Dickson (for defendants): “I am going to suggest that the whole thing is more or less in the nature of a political agitation.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 October 1931, Page 5
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176AN AUCKLAND EVICTION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 October 1931, Page 5
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