SPECIAL POLICE OUT
BANK OFFICIALS MAY FIRE ON UNEMPLOYED TROUBLE AT DARWIN DARWIN, Thursday. The police have conscripted ail Government officials as special constables and armed them with waddies in order to resist the activities of turbulent. unemployed. Bank officials have been ordered to remain within their banks and use their firearms if necessary. Communists have hoisted a red flag above a tent where the majority of the unemployed men are quartered in Liberty Square. The Government Resident has received a telegram from the Federal Government offering to find employment for the men in peanut growing at 30s a week each until the crop fit harvested.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 961, 2 May 1930, Page 9
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106SPECIAL POLICE OUT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 961, 2 May 1930, Page 9
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