VIOLENCE IN SYDNEY
DAY TO BE REMEMBERED MANY WILD DEMONSTRATIONS A RELIEF DEPOT RUSHED CLEAN SWEEP OF CONTENTS I By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. I SYDNEY, June 20. Yesterday will be remembered in Sydney as a day of unexampled violence. Following the Newton riot there was a wild, demonstration in Railway Square, where shop windows were broken. Even the Labour Daily newspaper office suffered. Altogether 22 arrests were made and six others arc in hospital. For the first time since the 1927-28 razor war the police in the metropolitan. area have been doubled. Disgraceful scenes were witnessed at the Orange relief depot, when a crowd of 500 men and women rushed the building ami helped themselves to a <rreat quantity of food ami clothing, which -was intended for distribution among the poor and needy. At the end of the raid there was not an article left. One woman was knocked down and tramped on, and pandemonium reigned while the unruly crowd escaped with armfuls of goods.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 145, 22 June 1931, Page 7
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