PROTEST AT HOOLIGANISM BY TROOPS
AUCKLAND, May 22. Allegations of widespread holliganism and vandalism by members of the J Force stationed at Papakura camp, were made at a well attended meeting of Takanini residents. A resolution was carried seeking the cooperation of the military authorities in the appointment. of a mobile picquet to patrol the Takanini area on dance nights and urging that on all other nights Takanini be declared out of bounds for the'troops. The allegations are that clothes lines were stripped and \Vashing flung to the ground, paddock gates left open so that stoek wandered out, gardens trampled and pipes smashed. It was stated that following an assault on a young woman who was an e'xpeetant motlier, women in the district were afraid to go out at uight. When the matter was refened to the Camp Conimandant at Papakura, Colonel G. P. Sanders, he deciined to comment other than stating that the two hotels at Papakura were declared out of bounds and that a picquet was operating.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 May 1947, Page 5
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