'TOO MUCH SYMPATHY'
ATTITUDE TOWARDS CRIMINALS. NONE OF THEIRS VICTIMS. (Per Presa Association). Day. "Too much sympathy is wasted on the criminal. I have found, after 30 years' experience, that there is too much sympathy for a criminal nowadays and none for his victim," said Mr J. O. Wills (ex-superintendent of; police) as Dunedin delegate at the Justices Conference, which rejected, by 12 votes to 10, an Auckland remit that probation officers be appointed from justices in the country districts so that persons required to report may not have to come in contact with the police. The Council decided to draw the attention of the Minister of Education to the necessity of redrafting legislation concerning child welfare and affirmed that no old age pensioner shall have his pension attached when such attachment means depriving him of his food. An Otago remit that it be made an offence to publish the name of a defendant in a court of justice unless and until defendant had been proved guilty was defeated.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 129, 13 March 1935, Page 6
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