Birching Order Suspended
(N.Z.P.A .-Routor—Copyright) LONDON, March 2. The British Home Secretary (Mr Henry Brooke) ordered yesterday that sentences of birching knpoeed on two prisoners after they rioted at Dartmoor prison should not be carried out. Instead of corporal punishment the two men will ba examined by psychiatrists. One of the men bee been bancbed before—«n 1980.
NX Display Piaieafl. New Zealand's display at the Melbourne International Trade Fair was one of Em beat ba has seen, said a director of New Zealand Forest Products, WJ. T. Currie, on ids return Bern Australia. Uta display coat £35,000 and was designed like a maze, taking nearly 45 minutes to go through, he said.—(P.A.) •4'
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30072, 5 March 1963, Page 6
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113Birching Order Suspended Press, Volume CII, Issue 30072, 5 March 1963, Page 6
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