Fights upset library calm
Schoolboys were found fighting in a lavatory at the Canterbury Public Library yesterday afternoon.
It was the latest in. a series of incidents which have caused serious concern to staff at the library, according to the City Librarian, Mr J. E. D. Stringleman.
The police were called to deal with the disturbance about 4.30 p.m. yesterday. It involved several pupils of a prominent boys’ school in Christchurch.
A police spokesman said that the boys, aged about 14, would be dealt with by the police Youth Aid section. It was possible that a charge of demanding money with menace would be laid in the Children and Young Persons Court, he said.
The most violent incident at the library occurred on April 20. A youth who had been listening to “Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits” was chased around the ground floor of the library, sending books and chairs flying, before having his head banged “very badly,” according to a witness, on a table at which an elderly woman was sitting.
One person who visits the library regularly said that an “undesirable element” seemed to have been attracted by the warmth of the building and its proximity to Cathedral Square. Drunk persons had been seen “sleeping it off” in chairs in the sun, he said.
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