Prisoners’ Work At Hospital Praised
(N.Z. Press Association)
WANGANUI, Oct. 26.
Lake Alice Hospital authorities are delighted with the volume of work done about the establishment by prisoners quartered there after the Mount Eden riot.
They built fences, dug ditches, felled timber, tidied up the site around the new maximum security block, and laid down new lawns, the Medical Superintendent (Dr. S. L. Pugmire) reported today. “We were deeply appreciative of the amount and quality of work carried out by the Prisons Department,” Dr. Pugmire said today.
He also reported “excellent co-operation” from prison staff.
The Prisons Department is now in the final phase of vacating Lake Alice’s security block.
But it would be early next year before mental patients occupied it, Dr. Pugmare said. He expects up to 59 security risks from mental institutions elsewhere in the country to be drafted to the new wing at Lake Alice. A staff of 42 will be assigned to the wing. This influx will boost Lake Alice’s population to almost 400.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30892, 27 October 1965, Page 24
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