LORD HOPETOUN’S KINDNESS.
A SHOCKING MISTAKE.
A SPREE FOR LOAFERS.
DISGRACEFUL SCENES.
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.
MELBOURNE, June 25
The distribution to the unemployed of a portion of the three hundred bottles of champagne and £l6O, the gi.'t of Lord Hopetoun, to which the Brewing Company added six barrels ci beer, resulted in unseemly scenes.
The distribution was made front tho Unemployed Secretary’s shop. Loafers and drunkards swarmed the door, crying out, for a dole of beer.
After two hours the crowd became so noisy and drunken that the police stepped in and advised that the distribution be stopped, and the proceedings be suspended for an hour. Altogether 112 bottles of champagne were given away, but on again receiving it the people were mostly drunken men and women.
Not one out of every ten of the rec pients was sober or decent. The bottles were sold by their recipients, the ruling price to the publicans being 5s and one long beer. The money went to provide a bigger spree for small knots of men and women.
Finally, when an enterprising photographer was crushed through a shop window, apparatus and all, the proceedings were abruptly stopped.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 456, 27 June 1902, Page 2
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