RIOT IN BULLI

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1931, Page 3

RIOT IN BULLI

RATIONS DECLARED •l-LACK.’’ (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Alay 1L The police- at Bulli, a picturesque coal mining township on the South Coast were involved in a desperate affray with a large crowd of unemployed miners and others, who had «e----clarou the Government rations “black.” The reason lor this has not been explained. The trouble began in the forenoon to-day, when about live, hundred men tried* to prevent their hungry comrades and fheir wives from collecting any food orders at the local AJineis Hall. The police attempted to disperse a mob of jeering men, and they finally were compelled to arrest the ringleader. Thereupon the remainder closed in, and they began an attack c-n the policemen with pieces ot wood and also of gas pipe.

The police drew their revolvers to protect themselves. J hey lodged the arrested man in the lock-up. 1 hen thev scoured the neighbourhood, and arrested ten others. Three of the constables wore tronton severely, and are suffering from head wounds, and they are convinced that they were lucky to escape with their lives.