RIOTING AT AUCKLAND
“LOSS OF PUBLIC SYMPATHY”
;EVEN HAVE MURDERED.”
«COURT SENTENCES OFFENDERS.
By Telegraph-—Prejs Auckland, February 12.
"If you hs.d set out to do yourselves a, bad tqrn. you could not have been more successful,” said the magistrate, Mr. W. H. Woodward, to-day when sentencing those arrested for participating in Tuesday’s unemployed clash with the. police. “Such a demonstration loses you public sympathy, and you cannot afford that,” the magistrate said. He would make allowance for the present trouble and excitement of the moment and the fact that the majority of the accused were usually respectable citizens whom he did not think would repeat the offence. He stated that those who had thrown bricks might even have committed, murder.
Henry Powell, aged 21, fireman, for obstructing the police was sentenced to a month’s gaol, and three others were fined £5, one £7 10s., and another was bound over.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1931, Page 9
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