GIRLS REVOLT
SCENES IN REFORMATORY
POLICE ATTACKED WITH STONES.
BY CABLE—PRESB ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT ADELAIDE, Feb. 10. I Girls at the Redruth Reformatory, learning that the discontinuance of cor_ poral punishment had been ordered, defied the matron, and there bas been a state of revolt since January, which culminated in a number rushing to the roof, where they tore down tlie parapet to use as ammunition. i Others in cells burrowed through a twenty-inch wall and joined Irtiose on the roof, and when the police arrived they were greeted with showers of stones. After considerable damage had been done to the. building the outbreak WM quelled.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 11 February 1921, Page 5
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104GIRLS REVOLT Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 11 February 1921, Page 5
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