PARK CAROUSAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 78, 22 May 1911, Page 5

PARK CAROUSAL.

By Telegraph Press Association. AAAdlington, Last Night. (Questioned by a New Zealand Times’ representative concerning the alleged disgraceful carousal in the park reserve at Invercargill cn a recent Saturday night and Sunday, the lion. G. To velds, Acting-Minister of Justice, said that from reports he had received he was ot opinion that the published accounts gave an exaggerated account of what had occurred, ‘fit appeared from these reports," said the Alinister, "that one individual purchased an 18-gallon keg of beer, and. with some companions, took it into the show ground., and being joined by some other persons, the beer was consumed. The night being wet, some of the parly remained all night in the shelter of some of the buildings on the ground. The place in question is outside the borough of Invercargill proper, is fenced with a close boarded fence, and is separated from the public street by a considerable space, and a belt of tree's. There is no suggestion that the residents of the vicinity or the general public were annoyed by or saw anything of what v.’as going on. The occurrence is very regrettable, and relied s discredit on those concerned in it. hut 1 think it only fair to the citizens of Invercargill and the police to say that there was no disturbance, that ihe drinking took place in a secluded spot out of flic town, and that, as far as ran he gathered, no breach of the lahv took place.”