Orphans Raided

The Gisborne Orphans Club dealt with 60 of their southern compatriots, members of the Hastings Orphans Club, when they "raided" the city last month.

On arrival at their disembarking point, Ormonds Motors car park, the visitors were medically inspected and treated for foot and mouth diseases.

The Hastings chief orphan, Mr Norm Compton, and deputy-chief, Mr Wally Haywood, were formally charged with untold crimes and sentenced to "confinement in the stocks". Other "raiders" were sentenced to service on the "chain gang".

After being securely locked in the stocks, the visiting chiefs were hauled through town by their fellow prisoners to the Abercorn Hall where they were extended an official welcome and released from their sentences.

Locked in the stocks and with a hangman's noose in readiness over his head, Hastings chief Norm Compton looks quite unperturbed by his predicament.

A "raider" gets dosed for mouth disease

Members of the Gisborne party waiting to deal with the "raiders". From left: Roy Harris, Jim McLean, Dick Burson, Olly Colling, Bert Moles, Peter Fergusson, Keith Stichbury, Tom Watson, George Weatherley, Mag Hayes, Eric Brown, and Eric Emmerson.

Gisborne chief orphan Peter Fergusson (left) reads the charges of Norm Compton and Wally Haywood. At right is the town crier, Keith Stichbury.

Medical orderlies Hayes and Weatherley treating the visiting orphans

Tom Watson and Ray English secure their prisoner

Wally Haywood in the stocks

The weird procession moving over the Derby Street bridge

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 122 : August 13, 1964

Orphans Raided