ROWDY SCENE IN STREET
Members Of Boys’ Club Abused
Members of the St. Christopher’s Boys’ Club were abused by a gang of larrikans* in Manchester street about 10.30 p.m. yesterday. Club members who had been collecting for the club’s appeal during the evening were standing on the pavement in Manchester street near the Trinity Congregational Church, when about eight youths surged around them, shouting abuse and jostling other pedestrians. They carried posters which had been used to advertise the appeal during the day, and these they began to tear up and throw into the air with derisive yells of “you won’t get any of our money.” As they moved off about 20 of the collectors followed them down Manchester street and into Hereford street. They caught only one, whose name was taken by a police constable. After most of the collectors had dispersed about 30 youths returned through Cathedral square and accosted a solitary collector. “Bring on your gang,” one of them sneered, “We’ve got ours.” They then scattered more tattered remnants of posters about the streets and stuck them to the windows of parked cars. Eventually they sauntered off.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 10
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190ROWDY SCENE IN STREET Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 10
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