ABODE OF LOVE.
i ZFALOTS VISIT OPOTrKf. lit iMBARDUD and bunc h FIT. OI'OTIKT. Anvil 0. The main street in Opotiki was the scene, of a great amount of activity, and exfitenlent the other night, when, under the leadership of an cln,|iient speaker, three zealots expottnded the doctrine similar to that pretuTn-d hy l)r. Biggfit. ttho founded the “Abmle of Love" on Claphani Common Fugland. The crowd at lirst showed displeasure through the medium of crackers, stink bombs, etc., hut when the lender made pointed references to a woman in the audience and she retaliated by the primitive method of punching his face, it Became the signal for a general bombardment with maize-cobs, and eggs ol doubtful nature. At the same moment the Salvation Army hand, some yards away, rendered martial music, and if it had not been for prompt and able handling of the situation bv a police-sergeant. the strangers would probably have become •*ae,|uainted with the river."
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1923, Page 4
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159ABODE OF LOVE. Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1923, Page 4
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