"DONE TO DEATH."
SUPPRESSION OF NAMES. (SPECIAL TO "THE rKISS.") AUCKLAND, October S. "I should like to speak of a matter that is worrying me considerably," said Archbishop Averill at the annual meeting of the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society to-day, "and that is the growing practice of suppressing names of men who appear in the Magistrate's Court. The present position is absurd. A doctor was recently found drunk while driving his car, and when he was charged in Court his name was suppressed.'' Mr K. Marsack (ex-Superintendent of Police): Why should it be? It is not right that there should be one law for the rich and another for the poor. It is all very welly to suppress the name of a first offendfer in some cases, but the thing has been done to death." "It has not only been done to death," said the Archbishop, "but it is even a direct encouragement to crime." "That is so," remarked Mr Marsack. "Publicity is the greatest of all deterrents, and there is no doubt whatever about it. The whole system of suppression of names is being flagrantly overdone.''
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18508, 9 October 1925, Page 14
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