TWO-UP SCHOOLS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1931, Page 9

TWO-UP SCHOOLS

’ RAIDS AT WANGANUI. HUMOUR DURING SCATTER

Wanganui, December 21. “I’m’ running because I can’t fly,” shouted a young man as he fled toward the waterfront when the police raided a two-up school at Castlecliff on Sunday night. Another young man in a hurry loft the trafck and fell-into a rubbish tip and had to be disentangled from reels of rusty wire, spirals of hoop iron and heaps of tin cans. . The general scatter when the police appeared dramatically from behind broom bush was useless, however, as Constables Hollis and Wainhouse had been hiding in a dugout there all the morning, and broom bush had been planted early in the day to conceal .the hiding place, and its equipment of cameras and notebooks.

On the river bank on Saturday afternoon Senior Sergeant McLean and Detective Murray interrupted the holiday pastime of a number ' of other young men who. were tossing pennies near the Dublin Street bridge, and they, too, will make their appearance in the Police Court to-morrow morning. Apparently the schools had been formed as a substitute for pictures or more expensive amusements, as it is stated that both schools of young men were hard up and could raise little more than. 20a between them.