MIDNIGHT PICKETS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1911, 20 November 1913, Page 8

MIDNIGHT PICKETS.

I WATCH WHAR?ES TILL ORDERED OFF BY POLICE. [ Strike pickets were very active along u tho waterfront until dispersed hy tho I police at an early hoar this morning. '• Between the Taranaki Street Wharf and ; Customhouse Quay some twenty or ' thirty pickets were observed steadily ' watching the wharves hou.r after hour '■ through' the night. Some "were on foot I and others on bicycles mdved slowly up ' and down along the length of water- ' front. . It is surmised that- tho object ;'• of tho men was to see whether the ' special and regular police on duty we're : reinforced during the night, and if so • to what, oxtent, and various- rumours were in circulation as to tho prospect j of further disorder this morning. At about half an hour after midnight a party of four mounted police, accomI pi'tiiicd by several foot constables under I Sergeant Bird, stepped two men on bicycles who had been riding backwards ' and forwards along tho waterside. Tho men. prpyed to 1 be bath Germans, and j' wheft asked what they wore doing, they I replied that they had been unable'to 1 sleep aud 50 had gone out- for a bicycle 1 ride. They Were promptly told to take \ themselves off to their homes, and also ' to tell their mates to be off. ', The police then proceeded along' the '' streets by the wharves and ordered off I various pickets, the two Germans also ' going. along and passing round the ' word that it was time to bo off. The 1 men soon made, themselves scarce, and at one o'clock tho report from the wharf 5 \»as that all was dear along the water- ] side, f :