REFORM AND RESCUE
*A WOMEN'S DEPUTATION. ' Delegates from various Women's Societies interested in reform and rescue work waited upon the Hon. Dr. M'Nab (Minister for Justice) to-day to ask him to present certain petitions to the House of Representatives. Mrs. A. R. Atkinson said that the deputation > complained of frequency of offences against children and the inadequacy of punishment meted out to the offenders, and they asked that the law be amended so as to provide substantial minimum penalties, particularly in the case of second and third offences. In the case of shorter sentences, also, the deputation suggested something in the nature of medical supervision and the retention of offenders in the prisons or prison hospitals, or curative institutions, until there seemed to be a reasonable prospect of curative treatment being successful; the work to be carried out on the lines of the Prisoners' Detention Biil passed through the House this week. Dr. M'Nab expressed sympathy with the objects -of the deputation, but pointed out that it was quite impossible for Parliament to deal with petitions this' session. He therefore suggested that the petitions be held over till next session as agreed io.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 80, 2 October 1915, Page 6
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