SERIOUS TROUBLE AVERTED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 11 September 1934, Page 4

SERIOUS TROUBLE AVERTED

DRUNKEN SEAMEN AT DUNEDIN

(By Telegraph-Press Association)

DUNEDIN. 10th September

Last evening three drunken Scotsmen from the steamer Port Hobart, resenting being spoken fo 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 arrived to take them to the police station the whole crew of the vessel turned out, informing the taxi-driver 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 offenders and took them to the station.

The prosecutor stated in the Magistrate’s Court this morning that if the sergeant had not come to the consi aide’s assistance and used a baton there would have been serious trouble. The offenders. Donald Martin, aged 95. George McKenzie. 22. and John McLeod., 25. wove fined £3 and ordered to make good the damage done to the taxi and the policemen's uniforms, and are to be detained till 4 o’clock this afternoon, half an hour before the boat sails.