APPRECIATION.
DISCHARGED PRISONERS. LETTER FROM DUKE OF KENT. The Rev. G. E. Moreton, of Auckland, has received a letter from the private secretary of the Duke of Kent, who is the patron of the Royal Society for the assistance of discharged prisoners, expressing appreciation of a copy of the annual report of the Auckland Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, and stating that he is very pleased to accept the report, and note the many beneficial activities of the society in Auckland.
The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare. in acknowledging receipt of a copy of the animal report, states that next to reducing tlie nn;nl>er of persons sent to prison for the first time, he is com in. cd that there is no more important hi in than the assistance of discharged prisoners with a view to preventing: their falling into a life of habitual crime. He fends hies best wishes for the society's work.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 271, 15 November 1937, Page 3
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