RIOT SEQUEL
To Tramway Strike
SEVEN MEN SENTENCED
“WAITING- AND BESETTING”
(Per Press Association)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day
As a sequel to the riot at the tramway depot in Moorhouse Avenue on Friday morning, seven men pleaded guilty this morning to charges of waiting and besetting. All were sentenced to three months’ gaol. One man, on two similar charges, received six months imprisonment. The police said that almost every man arrested was armed with some weapon—either stones or batons. Various piece.', of gelignite were found late.’.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 117, 12 May 1932, Page 5
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85RIOT SEQUEL Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 117, 12 May 1932, Page 5
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