TOY "SCRAMBLE"
:,mm> scenes at Sydney
12,000 BIDDIES OUT OF HAND
(Australian Press. Association)
(Received this day at 12.40 p.xn.) : ' , • SYDNEY, December 22. Breaking ; through a police cordon, twcfve 'thousand' screaming children rushed wildly in a frantic quest for toys . -at.. ia.,;]big Christmas par*y at the Show Grounds. The police and officials madet strenuous.- efforts to restore order, but this, was,, unavailing. The children: got out, of hand, and grabbed,,.toys of every .description from the stalls, from, 'one another. Hundreds of (mothers who were not admitted tried ,to force a wav into the ground. A large number of children were lost. Finally,. unidentified kiddies were paraded in front of the mothers. .•Scores of children suffered minor in-
juries. i ; The reason for the stampede is believed to. bo. due, to the kiddies being J&pV jhtanding waiting, too. long fpr their liking, iof the distribution of the toys., v, . L ;... ... -■ ..- ■ ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1933, Page 6
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149TOY "SCRAMBLE" Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1933, Page 6
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