Pandemonium For Six Hours In Prison
AUCKLAND, Feb. 2. Dissatisfaction with the food and several c.onditions at the prison, was ihe iong-term cuuse of the distirrbance there on Sunday night. It is reliably stuted that trouble had lieen brewing some time. Incensed by the seizure ot a clandestine letter, the woman who had heqn in possession of it, began complaining louitly. Heven otber women prisoners began to catcail in sympathv and pandemonium reigned from 4.30 p.m. till 10.30 p\m. is they shrieked their protests, kickcd the walls of ctibicles and snuished winxlows in the partition separating the women 's from the men '.«#di vision. After the disturbance had continued for some time, the niai'e prisoners also started to catcail. At first they were telling the women to stop the noise but then joined in too. When "they were tired of ahusing the authorities the inmates brolce into song, among the tunes heard being "Fistol 1'q.cking Ifomma", "Now is the Hour" and "(rive He Five . Minutes ^lore." Residents near the ipstitutiou said they heard the sonnd of -whips and hoses heing turned on but the ComptrolJer of Prisons, iMr. H. L. Dallard, said this was absolute nonsense as such devices were nevCr used for disciplinary purposes.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 February 1948, Page 5
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