DONNYBROOK TRAIN.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3392, 23 January 1920, Page 3

DONNYBROOK TRAIN.

BEER CAUSES A RIOT.

DISGRACEFUL END TO A PICNIC

OAM.~kI{U, Jan. 22.

At the recent Ullited_Fl'ieii(l‘.y Society picnic, the train that ran from Oaniaru to Tiinaru had two thousand persons aboard, many of them women and children. A number of young riien drank to excess in Timiiru, and the scenes on the return. '_iourn»;y ended in a scramble." Three eonstables, who were p'zLssenger's, proved powerless to keep order. The train was described as a Donnybrook from end to end. Nine window's were broken. The first trouble was starfod by one man objecting to another pulling a woman through a window at stop. From this it spread through ‘lhe whole tr*ai.n. One peaeemaker was seiraed lg‘ the xvi-islrs and held over the opening between two plat{:'orms with the lmin at full speed and ‘his life was only saved by the interference of other "passengers. VVonlen and children were screaming. The foors bore unweleomc evidence of the unwise imbibing rm“‘S‘3_H facts were made public to-day when 'seve'n young men pl'e\'i()nsly‘ Of 3003- <‘«h111'&1‘f01' Were bl'oll’g'll'i before Mr Bar‘r.holomew, S. M. They were all fined £5 for offensive behaviour on a train. Three of them \\'C'l'n also fined £3 for obscene language.