THE POLICE CELLS.
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—The Christmas holidays over, and we get a fair account of picnics and excursions from the able representatives of the press, I will give you an idea of the surroundings of the unfortunate inebriates and others who have to occupy the High-street cells till they can be brought before a •Magistrate or J.P. Cell of 8 x 10, walls and floor, not a seat in which to sit or ; stretch their weary limbs. They must get !oa the floor when they can no longer keep on their feet—a floor that has to be kept washed to ensure cleanliness, and whose inside never has the sun's rays. As one poor man said, " I have suffered from rheumatics since I got locked up with a mate when we went on a spree one Saturday. "We lay or sat on the floor two days and nights.' 5 And this is in a Christian land wliere men kneel oft and pray.—l am, etc., Nineteenth Century Reform.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 301, 29 December 1897, Page 2
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