PRISON LABOUR.
COOL APPLICATION BY INVER. CARGILL TOWN COUNCIL.
(by telegraph—own correspondent.)
Invercargux, this day. The Town Council asked; the Minister o** Justice to allow prison labour to be em. ployed free of charge to carry out certain municipal works, and in this way compensate the corporation for thelosssustained through the Railway Department having taken over the Tbw.il Rciservoi the effect ©_ which had been to render the public baths useless. At the same time it was explained that the Council intended to make a claim against the Department for their action. The . Corporation had been paying, two shillings a day for prison labour ,ancF were the first public body to do so. The Minister declined to comply with the request.; He could only promise that if labour were granted it would boat thebarecostof maintenance, but that would probably exceed two shillings per day per man. Free prison labour was nob allowed for municipal works in any part of the colony. An exception was .made in favour,, of the;,: Defence worksj but those were, of colonial importance. If the request wOIO granted it would lead to a lot of trouble and applications would pour ih Irom all parts of the colony.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 223, 21 September 1888, Page 4
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