HUSBANDS WHO DEFAULT.
PROPOSAL FOB LABOUR COLONIES. MAEKET GARDENING AEEAS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. "I observe 'that'-in your proposals you advocate the .establishment of labour colonies for defaulting said fho Minister of Justice (Sir Thomas Sidey) when addressing the--Howard League conference. "Tie matter has been considered on many occasions, he continued. -"I feel that the existing system is not satisfactory. I have already arranged that where there is a -maintenance order against a prisoner the Department shall pay maintenance to his dependents without delaying for the •usual police inquiries to be made. "The profitable employment of persons undergoing short terms of imminent is the chief difficulty. Already the Department is faced with all kinds of protests against competition with private enterprise. The industrial field is therefore 'tabooed' from entry by the State with so-called 'cheap labour. Farming experience shows that only a limited number can be absorbed economically on a farm. The Department is at present exploring the possibility of intensive market gardening on areas reasonably adjacent to .the cities, but the experiment in this direction has not been without a considerable measure of opposition."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 15
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