PRISONERS' AID SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1922, Page 8

PRISONERS' AID SOCIETY

USEFUL WORE,

A meeting of the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society was held in the Chief Justice's Room, Supreme Court, on Thursday, 12st inst. Sir Bobert Stout, president, occupied the' chair. Mr. Arnold brought up a report of the work the society had done during the winter, showing t'"s great number that K3d not only received food and lodgings, but clothes and boots, railway fares to work, which was found for them, and no one had been allowed to sleep out or want food, if it was known when they left the prison. Mr.-Arnold, Visiting Justice, visits the prison every week, and ascertains who will be comLsg out the next week. Mr. Todd, the chief clerk of the prison, in this matter at all times gives great assistance.

His Honour Mr. Justice . Hosking spok"e of the usefulness of such a society, and urged that it should be well supported | by the Government, for it was when a man left the prison he needed friends.

Mr. Biddell, S.M., Baid men come befor the Court penniless, and he had sent men to the society to get. a little help. Sir Robert Stout spoke of many of the old men who would not stop in homes. ■ It would, he thought, be an act of kindness to send them to one of the prison farms; there light work could be found for them, and they would find it more comfortable than wandering about the country.

Apologies were made for Mr. T. M. Wilford and Mr. P. J. O'Regan, Mr. D. G. A: Cooper, S.M., and Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.