BRAWL IN AUCKLAND

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 94, 16 May 1938, Page 3

BRAWL IN AUCKLAND

TOUGH TIME FOR THE POLICE EIGHT ARRESTS. AUCKLAND, Last night. About I*o police from the Central and Queen’s Wharf stations were wmmoned on Saturday evening to fall a braivl which broke out at the torner of Queen and Customs streets. The situation at one stage appeared dangeioii' and it was half an hour Wore the police had the disturbance in hand. Eight men were placed under ariw and will appear in the Police Court to-morrow on charges of renting arrest and of obstructing the police. The trouble arose when Sergeant T Southwonh and Constable R. Bell were arresting a man on a charge of P®tonness shortly after 6 o’clock. The man :avc some trouble and his companion- interfered, three being Arrested. P.y this time a crowd had ■fathered and the hoodlum element Ihecame violent, police reinforcements ping obtained within a few minutes Itrom the Central station, where an - assistance and N sent. I The crowd had been greatly augmented and spread across Customs ■street on to the tramlines in Queen htreet. HOSTILE ATTITUDE. I * portion of the crowd showed a I 1 the police, and INBes occurred, the police being : " pied in quelling outI? s v^once * Batons were carbut they we re not used, in spite I® the extreme unruliness and probation of a section of the crowd. I- of the men who was the origin caU! « - of the disturbance escaped ■rota a taxi in which he was about to r* ta hen to the police station, hut he |r* 1 *| ' 1 " had gone quietly ■° l he taxi hut on being placed inside °Pened the opposite door and out. resentment was shown by a ■ the crowd at the ■yt° n ot the police in detaining the ■ ras arrested on a °T drunkenness having strenudenied that he was intoxicated. ■ he chief difficulty of the police By 111 breaking up groups of these ByPf- who opposed any move on the °t the police. Xo one was seriBf;. *J Ul ’t Imt one constable was Hr‘ ’wd down ami received a kick on ■Llr* ■ A S( ‘ ( ‘ 0,,( l constable was * n juied and two participants e orawl received minor injuries.