BIGAMISTS BEST GARDENERS
PRISON CHIEF’S VIEW. | LONDON, October 28. . 'Miss Lilian Barker, a Prison Com-, missionei', at « meeting in London last' night said:* I -“A north country prison governor) said to me, ‘lf ever a man comes in ;
•lor bigamy I put him in the gardens. , I find 1 that bigamists make the finest > gardeners.’ 1 “So it behoves you, when you see a Iman who is a good gardener, to be (careful of his past. ■ “I am sure, though, that the governor spoke seriously. The introducI tion of gardening in our prisons has | proved most uplifting a,nd of great J benefit. Most of the prisoners be- ; come keen gardeners."
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1937, Page 2
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