Rioting unemployed workers being dispersed by police, Cuba Street, Wellington

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Title

Rioting unemployed workers being dispersed by police, Cuba Street, Wellington

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Collection

TAPUHI

Description

Rioting unemployed workers in Cuba Street, Wellington, being dipersed by mounted and foot police. Photograph taken in May 1932. Inscriptions: Dramatic police charge routs unemployed demostrators in Wellington. [?] workers and unemployed numbering about 2,000 were put to rout in a lightning two-minutes baton charge by 50 mounted and foot police, under Inspector J Lander, during a mass meeting held in Cuba Street last week. The [?] followed an outbreak of stone throwing by a section of the cro...

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Format

Image

Date created

May 1932

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22447880

Locations

Cuba Street

Related subjects

Riots / New Zealand / Wellington Region / Crowds / Depressions / 1929 / Unemployed / Police / Cuba Street

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