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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4543, 13 December 1930, Page 1

After the first meeting of unemployed in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, on Saturday morning had (been broken up by the police, the leaders sought to givle their addresses a little further along the roadway. One man who had not spoken previously stepped on to the box and declared that it was not right that the workers should be debarred from holding public meetings. During his address a woman a few yards away began to get resitless. “Get down from here, Ben!” she called, but lie did not hear. A sergeant of police near by, who, with others, had. failed to get the leaders to moive on, grasped the glorious opportunity. He quietly warned the woman that she had better get her husband oft’ the box. “I’ll get him. Majkie way there,” she urged, and went to the front. “Ben, come down from there,” she directed. “It’s all right, dear,” he answered, immediately ceasing his speech and stepping to join his wife and child on the outskirts of the crowd. “Come away and leave them. There are plenty of other men there,” she adjured her husband. The crowd, though in an excited mood, appreciated the humour ,of the situation in which one woman had succeeded • where a dozen police had failed. — 1 Christchhrch Times.