HOKITIKA HOODLUMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1800, 5 July 1906, Page 3

HOKITIKA HOODLUMS.

FORMER GISBORNITE FELTED WITH SODS.

At tho mooting of tho Wool Coast Rugby Union last week Mr C. Wyldo Browno, who was roforoo in tho matoh Hokitika versus Star, playod at Hokitika on Saturday last, attoudod and roportod on tho troatmont aooordod him. Ho statod that as soon as tho game was ondcd ho got tho most unmoroiful “ turn ' ho had ovor rccoivod, Beforo ho loft tho ground somo sods wtro thrown at him, and ho was followed from tbo ground to ds hotol by a crowd of ‘2O or 00 porsons, somo of whom wore 21 years of ngr, who oontinuod throwing eods at him. Ho wob satisfied that thoro was not a policeman on tbo ground, and nil tbo time ho was in Hokitika ho novor saw a poliooman in uniform. Ho would hnvo to give up tho gamo. Ho had tried his host, but it was not fair to him that ho should bo subjocted to suoh treatment. Why should ho go to Hokitika to bo blackguarded, by a crowd of hoodlums i After considerable dis* oussion it was rosolvod, 11 That tho Hoki*. tika olub bo informed that Mr Wyldo Browno had repotted that ho had boon BUbjootod to difg-aooful troatmont by a certain section of tho ppootators on Cass Squa'O last Saturday, and that iD view of tho fact that similar soonos had frequently occurred in tho past on tho sumo ground tho union insists upon the Hokitika olub making some strongor cfljrfc to proteci tho referee, otherwise the union will be reluct- , QQtly ootnpellod to consider tho question of diequalifying tho ground.” |