HOOLIGANISM ON WHATAUPOKO.
(To the Editor of the Times.) Sir,—ln your issue of the 26th inat. a correspondent whites of a Hooligan running down and injuring a woman on the public road by the Wbataupoko bridge : X ask, Sir, if it be nofc necessary to direct the attention of the authorities to the conduct of some of the young gentlemen of Hooligan Whataupoko, who at late hours of the night on returning to their homes after their matriculatory studies around the street corners of Gisborne, amusingly employ their well-bred instincts by throwing stones in volleys on to the roofs of the houses that lie on their way. So far no windows have been broken, that pleasure to the low-breds is to come.—l am, etc.,
t) o ... Sufferer. I.S. Sir, I-find that the conclusion come to in the last sen tence is not correct • from &Ir C. Wood I learn that damage to' a window of his house has “been perpetrated to the amount of eight shillings by a member of one of our cadet corps returning from drill. Napoleon the I. said that “ the worse the man the better the soldier, ’ this is likely to be exemplified m the future of the Whataupoko Hooligan,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 402, 29 April 1902, Page 2
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