GIRLS IN REVOLT
EXTRAORDINARY SCENES AT A REFORMATORY. STONES HURLED AT POLICE. B.r Telegraph—Frew Awn.—Copyright (Received February 10, 10.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, Fobruary JLO. Tho girls at the Redruth reformatory, learning that the discontinuance of corporal punishment had been ordered, defied tne matron, and theire has been a state of revolt since January, which culminated in a number rushing to the roof, where they tore down the parapet to uso as ammunition. Others in the cells burrowed through a twentyinch wall and joined those on the roof, nnd when the police arrived they wero greeted with showers of stones. After considerable damage had been done to tiie building the outbreak was quelled.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10822, 11 February 1921, Page 6
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