LOOTERS CHARGED

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1932, Page 5

LOOTERS CHARGED

AUCKLAND RIOTS MANY OFFENDERS GAOLED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association t •AUCKLAND, April 22. Another large batch of looters, ana also of rnen who took part in the riots of last Thursday and Friday nights, appeared before Mr Hunt, S.M-, in the Police Court this morning. Many of them were sent t.o gaol, and several were fined. Since the riot the police have made over one hundred arrests. A number of the cases were very similar, and involved theft. Sentences of three mouths and one month in gaol were imposed. In a few cases tlhe ’M:agisti'ttLO decided fines would meet tine case.

“Ton ought to he ashamed of yourself. We look to men of your type to help to maintain law and order, not to encourage doflanoe of it,'’ said Mr Hunt to ‘.Robert Black (a New Zealander),a boilermaker, aged 51 years. Black had abused a special constable. Defective Waterson said that the accused was slightly drunk, and that he mis carried away, lllack’s counsel said he had not been in trouble before, Black wag fined £lO or a month’s imprisonment., A large number of the accused were remanded on bail. “I am not going to have these men knocking about the town if I can help it:” This remark was made by Mr Hunt in fixing ihe bail at £SOO in the case in which George Joseph Silver, aged 52, an English labourer, was charged with inciting lawlessness, assaulting a constable and a detective, and taking part in an unlawful assembly. Mr Hunt said lie had been informed by the police that Silver was one of the leaders.