ECHO OF WAIHI STRIKE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8353, 13 February 1913, Page 7

ECHO OF WAIHI STRIKE

STRANGE CONDUCT AT FUNERAL,

Press Association. AUCKLAND, February 12. 'At the Police Court a Federationist named William Gaynor was charged with having, on January 13th last, used abusive and insulting words and threatening behaviour on the Auckland station, whereby a breach of the peace might have been occasioned. Senior Sergeant Mathieson, in stating his case, said that to occurrence was an echo of the Waihi strike. On January 13th a number of Waihi men came to Auckland to attend the funeral of a friend. Messrs Martin, Ritchie, and Sullivan, who had played prominent parts in the strike,. were walking along the platform prior to tho departure of the Thames train, when accused, an ex-Waihi striker, accompanied by 30 or 40 men, apparently wharf labourers, came along, and Gaynor approached Martin *in a very threatening attitude, saying: “You dirty, scabby mongrel. You’d come down here to bury a friend, would you?” There was danger of a disturbance, but when the police arrived Gaynor had disappeared. The crowd, however, was infected with the old fever, and continued to call out “scab” and “mongrel” until the train went out. , The case will- be continued to-mor-row.