BRAWL IN CAMP
TWO UNEMPLOYED FACTIONS. Three men were badly injured and several others received minor injuries in a light at the Happy Valley unemployment camp, near Sydney, recently.. The dispute arose among two- factions, who were each seeking to control the camp. One section attempted to take the papers and various other articled, in eluding a typewriter. The office-holders resisted, and the fight become genera! Sticks and a hammer were used, and t k police and ambulance had to be called to • the scene. : ; Ernest Parnell, aged 29, received a-frac hire, of the nose and lacerated wound - to the head; Arthur Vain, aged 43. ri ceived'head injuries; and Frederick Pt 4 tor, aged 24, suffered, lacerations to t).' face and hands. They were taken pr the Eastern Suburbs Ambulance to th Coast Hospital. A number of other men , refused to be treated, though • they wer* j bleeding profusely from cuts on their j faces and arms. The dispute was aired before a magistrate. The case was dismissed, and .supporters of neither party were content to j let conditions remain as they were, .j
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1931, Page 9
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184BRAWL IN CAMP Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1931, Page 9
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