RAID ON FIREWOOD
FORTY TONS^DISAPPEAR. EARLY MORNING INCIDENT. Four fully-loaded 10-ton trucks'of firewood, which were standing in the siding of the railway station at North Carlton, Melbourne, were raided lately by about 60 men, women and children, and the 40 tons of wood was taken before the police could intervene. The firewood had. been consigned from the country to the Carlton Unemployment Relief Committee, which intended to distribute the wood among the families of workless, men in the district. Early in the morning, hoWever, men? women and children with motor trucks, horse vans, perambulators, wheelbarrows and hand-trucks arrived at the station. When the police arrived only a few logs remained and all the raiders had disappeared.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1931, Page 9
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116RAID ON FIREWOOD Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1931, Page 9
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