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MOTOR BOATS IN VENICE. GONDOLIERS PROTEST. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ROME, June 22. (Received June 23, 7.10 pan.) The gondoliers in Venice made an angry demonstration against the authorities allowing motor launches to ply on the canals. The gondoliers surrounded the motor stations, preventing the boats moving, and also wrecked the landing stage. Subsequently 300 gondoliers went in procession up the Grand Canal to the Town Hall, where an enormous crowd shouted “Down with the motor boats!”
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Southland Times, Issue 19278, 24 June 1924, Page 5
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