RIOTOUS TERRITORIALS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7867, 1 August 1911, Page 4

RIOTOUS TERRITORIALS

DISORDER AT LOWER HUTT. Soma two hunted of the newly-en-rolled territorials’ in . the Hutt Valley had received a summons to attend at the Hutt drill hall last . evening to undergo the required medical inspection. The summonses were obeyed in a most unmilitary-liko display of riotous insubordination. For an hour before the appointed time' a rabble of youths marched about the fetreets of _ Petone singing, shouting, hooting and tin-bang-ing. Then they proceeded to the drillshed, receiving largo reinforcements on route. Arrived at their destination they defied all attempts of SergeantMajor Millet to range them in any semblance of order, and for a time took charge of the proceedings. They boohed, hooted and laughed at the sergeantmajor, throwing mud at him freely. He wisely kept his temper, and after one unruly mud-slinger had received a severe chastisement at his hands the examination was proceeded with, though under great difficulties. Surgeon-Colonel Purdy conducted the examination, for which a portion of the hall had been curtained off. In the bofiy of the hall the mob of recruits kept up their hooliganism, the sergeant-major having to bear singlehanded the brunt of their grossly-ofteu-sive behaviour. The worst culprits appeared to be boys about, sixteen or seventeen years old. ,