ROWDYISM AT WAITEKAURI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10037, 25 January 1896, Page 5

ROWDYISM AT WAITEKAURI.

[by TELEGRAPH—own correspondent.] Pabroa, Friday. Rowdyism at Waitekauri is assuming alarming proportions, and a resident police officer is urgently needed; in fact, Constable Beattie stated in the Poliae Court, to-day, thatowin? to the number of roughs at Waitekauri now, respectable people were afraid to live there; indeed, some of the tradespeople would not go to their doors at night without having a gun with them in case of emergency. This statement was made during the hoaring of the charges preferred against Francis Moody, Thomas Kennedy, and John Donaldson, for trespassing on the Waitekauri Hotel, and refusing to leave when requested to do so by the owner. The evidence went to show that the accused, with twelvo or thirteen others, created a disturbance on the 18th inst, by singing and dancing itakas alternately on the verandah of the hotel between ten a.m. and three p.m., there, being no intermission of proceedings, whioh were interspersed with volleys of obsceno language. The three accused ware convicted, Moody and Kennedy being fined £2103 and costs, £2 7s 9d each, while Donaldson was more leniently' dealt with, being only fined 10s, with oosts £2 7s 9(1. In default, the two former were sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and the latter 14 days.