GAOL GIRLS RIOT.
[By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Auat. and N.Z. Cable Association.] SYDNEY, Last Night.
Girls at the Redruth reformatory learning that a discontinuation of corporal punishment has been ordered, defied the matron, and there has been a state of revolt since January which culminated in a number of the inmates rushing to the roof where they tore down a parapet to use as ammunition. Others in the cells burrowed through a twenty inch wall and joined those on the roof and when the police arrived they were greeted with showers of stones. After considerable damage had been done to the buildings the outbreak was quelled.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1736, 11 February 1921, Page 5
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105GAOL GIRLS RIOT. Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1736, 11 February 1921, Page 5
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