DISORDER IN GAOL
GRIEVANCE OVER XMAS MEALS
LONDON, December 27
Major G. L. Phillips, Governor of Chelmsford Gaol, who (was ibrmeriy an officer in the . A.I.F. and later had charge of Australian war graves in France, spent a far from peaceful Christmas.
. Three prisoners in the punishment block, where they had been sent on reduced rations, following a recent rioisy outbreak, began shouting and banging their tin mugs on the floors after the Christmas dinner. Warders who tried to restore quiet were received with yells of “A Merry Christmas! ' Where’s the turkey ?” The disturbance spread to other blocks, and the noise could be heard 200 yards away. The demonstration was continued on Boxing Day, the prisoners unitedly demanding more jam, but it ceased at breakfast to-dav, when' the prisoners apparently ’ were exhausted.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1933, Page 6
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