DEMAND FOR FOOD

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1932, Page 12

DEMAND FOR FOOD

GROCERS' SHOP RUSHED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, This Day. Culminating in a vigorous" attempt to break into the grocery premises of Messrs. Wardell Bros., a large demonstration by relief workers, who marched along George street chanting "We want food," was organised in Dunedin this morning. At 10 o'clock a crowd gathered in the Octagon and Inarched to the Hospital Board's Office to repeat the demands for relief. .The board said it would deal with, individual cases, but the cry "All must get it or nobody," was raised, and after several women, whose cases were investigated^ were turned away "because their husbands had had some work this week, the crowd, in an angry mood, marched to Wardell's. Although confronted by Police Superintendent Eccles and a body of constables, they made a desperate attempt to enter the premises and help themselves. The rush was beateu back and much haranguing took place. A plate glass window of the shop was broken, and a detective was struck on the leg by a big lump of brick and mortar. The police were very tactful, and little hostility was shown to them as individuals. STOPPING THE TRAMS. The crowd became so great that all traffic was suspended between II and 1 o'clock. By this time there were only some three hundred persons in the crowd, but when an-attempt was made to run the trams through, some women lay down on the rails and the manager has suspended the main street service in the meantime.l . . . \ It transpires that the only casualty was to the labour leader, Mr. O'Rorke, who, when attempting to address the crowd,, was struck on the head by a large stone, the wotfnd requiring dressing.