REVOLT AT ROTO ROA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12883, 17 June 1913, Page 7

REVOLT AT ROTO ROA.

MUCH MISCHIEF WIIOUGHT.

POLICE AID SOUGHT.

(By Telegraph.—Srwwil to Chronicle.) AUCKLAND, June 14.

Taking ndva-ntag^ of the absence of

| Adjutant Haynes, the Salvation Army ' otficer who nianAges. affairs at Roto Roa "Island, anurnber of the detenu es on this % is'fljid oh Thursday night got out of hand and. something of «v .disorderly weno took place; during the course of irhich considerable mischief-was done. A number of windows were smashed and t.Tie telephone connection with the mainland was cut. The officials manaeed'jto c-onr.ev by boat the int^ellisence of .their isolation and the following day. tele^--pTsotie commnriication was re-establish-ed. It was found,l however./that the jKn?on<; who had been committed to-the isirtnd for their own good ..were still in a

re!>eHious mood, against the regulations

of the community and «i number of them rofi.Red to -work. /Work is v one of the 'ihief features of the curative treatment on Ihe island for the humours that afflict the inebriate and though absolute

compulsion is not..with in th© powers of tho authoritips. flat refusal to do fwork *.f imy^kind may be met by seeing the biT.id of idleness is not from the same lof*.f that is tho reward and , staff of md ustry. Naturally, .where this distinction has to be broad on iaerount of many of the patients being disposed to be idlo and brood over their real and fancied wrongs, the position on ,tho island becomes strained and difficult to maha^B '.nth usually a spirit of mutiny abroad ond ft disposition to do. mischief. Tlmt was found to bo tho position on the isfund yesterday. In the absence of the manager, who was away on a business visitto headquarters in Wellington, the authorities, find in <r tho position getting beyond them applied to the polieo for 'assistance in preserving order. As a result two constables went down to give the required assistance. Tho Adjutant has also returned and it is expected that matters will resume their normal state in the course of a few days.