GIRLS RUN RIOT.
DISORDERLY SCENE IN REFORMATORY. THE POLICE STONED. By Telegraph —Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 10, 10.20 p.m. Adelaide, Feb. 10. Girls at the Redruth Reformatory, learning that the discontinuance of corporal punishment had been ordered, defied the matron, and there has been a state of revolt since January, which culminated in a number rushing to the roof, where they tore down the parapet to use as ammunition. Others in cells burrowed through a twenty-inch wall and joined those on the roof, and vjhen the police arrived they were greeted with showers of stones. After considerable damage had been done to the building the outbreak was quelled. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1921, Page 5
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113GIRLS RUN RIOT. Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1921, Page 5
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