WOMEN CAUSE A SCENE.
DISTURBANCE IN LEGISLATURE. THE FATHER JERGER CASE. • By Telegraph —Tress Assn.—Copyright. Received July 15, 1.5 a.m. Melbourne, July 14. There was an extraordinary scene' in the House of Representatives after Mr. Hughes refused to discuss the Father Jerger case. Mr. Tudor attempted to move a censure motion, f>ut before he commenced a woman Sn the gallery shouted loudly at Mr. Hughes regarding the treatment of Father Jerger, and then threw into the Chamber a bundle of literature on the subject. This was the signal for concerted action on the part of other women in the gallery, who screamed: "Why don T t you give him a fair trial, you dirty rotter," and then they showered printed statements upon the heads of those bellow. ( - After a struggle the interjcctors were removed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1920, Page 5
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136WOMEN CAUSE A SCENE. Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1920, Page 5
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