LOOTERS IMPRISONED

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1932, Page 4

LOOTERS IMPRISONED

MANY CASES AT AUCKLAND MORE THAN HUNDRED ARRESTS. ALLEGED LEADER ON £5OO BALL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Another large batch of looters and men who took part in the riots of last Thursday and Friday nights appeared before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court this morning. Many were sent to gaol and several were fined. Since the riot the police have made over 100 arrests. Many of the cases ■were very similar and involved theft. •Sentences of three months and . one month in gaol were imposed and in a few cases the magistrate decided that fines would meet the case. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself; we look to men of your type to help maintain law and order, not to encourage defiance of it,” said Mr. Hunt to Robert Black, a New Zealander, boilermaker, aged 51, who had abused special constables. Detective Waterson said Black was slightly drunk and that he was carried away. Black’s counsel said Black had not been in trouble before. He was fined £lO, in default imprisonment for one month. Numbers of the accused were remands ed on bail.

“I am not going to have these men knocking about town if I can help it. This remark was made by Mr. Hunt in fixing bail at £5OO in the case in which George Joseph Silver, aged 32, an English labourer, was charged with inciting lawlessness, assaulting a constable and a detective, and taking part in an unlawful assembly. Mr. Hunt had been informed by the police that Silver was one of the leaders.