RETURN HOME FROM GAOL.
INCIDENT AT 'HUNTLY.
[from our own correspondent,,]
HUNTLY. Saturday
A massed demonstration of between 300 and 400 people, most of them unemployed, greeted the arrival of the AucklandTaneatua express at Huntly at 11.30 this morning, the occasion being the return home from Mount Eden Gaol of five of the men who were convicted and fined £lO, or in default one month's imprisonment, in connection with the recent raid by unemployed on tho Farmers' Trading Company's store at Huntly. Passengers looked on with curiosity from carnage windows as the sounds of cheering reached their ears. As the train pulled up in tho station the. crowd pressed closer to the carriages where their " comrades" were ready to alight. Hoisting red banners, and to the strains of the 'Bed Flag " and " Keep tho Home Fires Burning," the five men wefe escorted from the train. , A
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21225, 4 July 1932, Page 10
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