UNRULY UNEMPLOYED.
DUNEDIN DISTURBANCE. SEVERAL MEN BEFORE COURT. (By Telegraph.—rrcss Association.) DUNEDIN, Monday. “There’s no doubt a great many of these people were hungry, but there was no need for them to resort lo this sort of thing,” slated Sub-Inspec-tor Cameron In the Police Court when the oaso came on‘just after noon in which loaders of the unemployed demonstration at Warden’s grocery shop on Saturday week were charged with cnoouraglng disorder and behaving In a disorderly manner. The men charged wero Eric W. Bralthwnitc, Francis O’Rorkc, Lawrcnco O’Rorkc, Georgo Jones, Norman Leo William Foote, and William Ballantync. All pleaded not guilty. The Court was crowded and over two hundred wero unable to get in. The polico case had only opened when tho lunch adjournment was taken.
Vigorous attempts to break into the grocery premises of Wardeil Brothers, Dunedin, were made by a largo crowd of unemployed on Saturday, Jami-
ary 9 and at tho time it was feared a serious riot might develop. 1 However, tho situation was tactfully handled by the police, and, helped by ' speakers who counselled constitutional methods, they res toyed order.
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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18537, 18 January 1932, Page 8
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