OLD COURTHOUSES
LITTLE PROSPECT OF NEW ONES PRESr tfT Wellington, This Day. Little hope of new court buildings ai d prisons till after the war was held ou by the Minister cf Justice, Mr Mason, when replying to discussion on the estimate, of /he Department of Prisons and Justice in the House of Representatives, The question had been ra sed Mr Watts (Opposition, Riccarton). who had referred to the “disgraceful state of many of the court buildings ii New Zealand.” This, he added, was not in keeping with the dignity of the law. Other speakers referred to the need for the replacement of some prisons, particularly the cne at Mount Eden. The Minister said he could n.t hold out much hope of an Improvement in regard to prisons o. courthouses for quite a while. It was hard enough to ge-„ school buildings at present, and some of the schools were as out of date as some of the old prison buildings that had been mentioned.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 30 September 1944, Page 5
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