PRISON REFORMATORY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1295, 25 November 1911, Page 14

PRISON REFORMATORY.

■: -FOUNDATION-STONE- LAID. • •;'jfcy "Tcleeraph'APrcsa. Association.) '':' ■'■- >-..!■ Te Awamutu, November 24. A definite step in connection with the TVaiwera prison reformatory farm, which the Prisons Department is starting on tho land recently purchased by the Government, on the northern border of the King Country, was reached to-day, when the foundation-stone of the reformatory building was laid by the Minister for Justice (Sir John l-'iudlay). Tho farm comprises about 1501) acres of a block of over 6000 -acres of improved land recently set apart by the Government for the dual purposes.of a prison reformatory and a mental hospital farm. The land was partly Grown land, and the remainder was purchased from the . Natives, and the property consists of low, undulating country, and the site of the reformatory is on a pleasantly-situated eminence in the centre of the farm about ten miles from Te Awamutu. In addition to Sir John and Lady Tindlay, there were present Mr. I*. Waldegrave (Undcr-fe'ecretary for Justice), Ecv. J. Kayll (prison adviser), Dr. Gribbin (Assistant-Inspector of Mental Hospitals), Brigadier Bray (in charge of the men's social work of the Salvation Army in New Zealand), and ■ several residents of Te Awamutu, as well as a number of settlers from surrounding districts. The party drove out from To Awamiitu, the function taking place at midday. The Minister was presented by 'Mr. Waldegrave ai behalf of the principal officers of the Prisons Department with a silver trowel, suitably inscribed, in honour of the occasion. ' ' :