PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.
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[FBOM OTJB OWN COBBBSPONDBIfT.] WELLINGTON, July 16. Mr Turnbull has given notice to ask the Government on Tuesday whether it is their intention to take sny action on the following subjects and recommendations alluded to in the report of the Inspector of Prisons:—l. To abolish schools in different gaols of the colony on the grounds stated in the report, viz., that endeavouring to ednoate prisoners is a mistake; 2. That each prisoner be periodically weighed, in order to test whether he is losing or gaining flesh ; 3. That the present dietary scale be altered in order to check that undue propensity to increase in weight whioh prisoners at present undergoing sentenoe exhibit; 4. Appointing a Medical Board, as recommended, to inquire how little a man can possibly exist on, in order that the dietary scale may be adapted for that purpose ; 5. That the gaoler shall be permitted to punish prisoners at will without the consent of the Tieiting Justices.
The Attorney-General, in announcing in the Legislative Council yesterday that telegrams had been received from the AgentGeneral relative to the favourable recort of tho London actuaries on the New Zealand Government Insurance Department, remarked that probably those gentlemen who have been aooustnmed to cavil at the management of the Insurance Department would learn with satisfaction the contents of that telegram.
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Press, Volume XXXV, Issue 4966, 18 July 1881, Page 2
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