PARSON "GAGGED."
Wireless Broadcast Stopped in
> Melbourne.
TOUCHING •ON ' POLITICS.
(Received 12.30 p.m.)
MELBOURNE, this day.
During an address broadcast- from the Wesley Church, the Rev. T. C. Rentoul was commenting on Australian political affairs, including the appointment of Sir Isaac Isaacs as Governor-General, when 3LO officials "applied the gag." Mr. Ronton! said that the people-at Home "regard Sir Isaac Isaac's appointment „as an insult to the King. "We must try to remedy it as soon as we get the change of Government " ' At this point the broadcast was stopped.- v . I. / ' POLICEMAN SHOT. WOMAN PLAYS A~ PART. f' : • , , * BRISBANE, October 25. The police had arrested a man iii a camp near'Winton in connection with a crime committed in Adelaide, when a woman, armed with a rifle, appeared and covered the constables. . ' ,
: The woman ordered them to release the man. • As soon as they had- complied the-man drew a revolver and shot Constable. Blaekadder, and then disappeared .with the woman. ...
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 253, 26 October 1931, Page 7
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