DEMONSTRATION EXPECTED
PRECAUTIONS IN WELLINGTON
WELLINGTON, Last Night. "A good deal of stir was occasioned in the Post Office square this afternoon by, a formidable array of mounted specials taking up their quarters there. A line of horses stretched right across from the Queen's Chambers to the shelter '"shed, and another squad of, mounteds kept patrolling the confines. Commissioner Cullen was in charge. Across Grey .street there was another line of horsemen, and in front of the Post Office were sixty or seventy mounteds as a reserve. Behind the sheds, near the Queen's wharf, large. squads .of foot specials were assembled" in readiness for emergency. '"■ The Commissioner of Police'informed a reporter that the preparations were the result of a re-: port persistently circulated to thei effect that the strikers intended to march to the square with their wives and children. ,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 21 November 1913, Page 5
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140DEMONSTRATION EXPECTED Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 21 November 1913, Page 5
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