A CURIOUS CROWD.
Extraordinary Scenes at Courthouse. (Special to the “Star.”) AUCKLAND, January 16. There were extraordinary scenes outside the Court. People heaved their way through and rushed up the steps when the gate opened. The crowd at that time was an ocean of swaying bodies and bobbing heads. Fashionablydressed femininity had no qualms in being swept along through the gate in the same way as less smartly dressed women. Hats were lost in the scramble, buttons torn off, but no account was taken of such trifles. The anxious janitor, dangling his keys, waited patiently for the “all clear” signal. “ No more,” announced the sergeant in charge at 9.50. The decision was final. Four constables forced the gate back, and the disappointed section of the crowd was then left to its own de-
“ That’s the treatment to give them ” called one spectator from the slopes of Albert Park. “ Fancy women hanging about a Court like that.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20205, 16 January 1934, Page 7
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