SERVING THE PUBLIC!

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 120, 16 May 1932, Page 7

SERVING THE PUBLIC!

REPORTERS IN DANGER FROM ANGRY CROWD Reporters in the course of their duty at Christchurch ran into danger. Tho United Front Committee declared tho trams "black.” Tho announcement was made at a meeting of unemployed which was later addressed by members of the United Front Committee in the Trades Hall. The hall was crowded, and a large number of women were present. Proceedings terminated after 11 o’clock. Reporters were not admitted, but the frequent bursts of cheering from the hall testified to the enthusiasm of those attending. At the conclusion of the formal proceedings three reporters who were waiting for a promised statement from one of the officials became the centre of attraction of rather an unruly mob, and one of them received a punch which laid his forehead open. The reporters left with loud objections following them, and there is little doubt, says the Christchurch Times, that had it not been for the intervention of Mr C. F. Riley and Mr G. Harris, injuries would have been a good deal more serious. Mr Riley’s advice was to the point. "Go for your lives. There is a mob of 400 in there, and they are in an ugly mood.’’