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TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l have been, reading the correspondence on the above in your columns, and if you would permit me I would like to .add ray abhorrence of this brutal treatment. I have been closely (perhaps too closely) associated with prisoners, and have known several men who have suffered flogging in this and other countries, but have never known of a single case where the victim was in any way a better man afterwards. If he were _ vicious before he was doubly vicious after, and if you saw one of these poor creatures after a flogging, quivering from head to foot, half-dazed, covered in sweat and blood, you would be a strange man if you were not moved to pity and did not want to do your best to put an end to it all. I do not like to state it, but among prisoners the flogging business is known as “the curse of Christ.” One would expect that the people of New Zealand (who would be insulted if you said that they were un-Christian) would rise en masse and have this brutal business put an end to. We are taught by the Great Master to pray for mercy, and should at least show some.—l am, etc., Bilii the Bad Boy.
August 29,
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Evening Star, Issue 21193, 29 August 1932, Page 11
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