FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15499, 5 January 1914, Page 4

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

THE DEBTORS' PFUSOIf, M TREATMENT OF .visiidbmP 'From the BEBaID of January 5 iJISP The Debtors' Prison.-In our yertSllfc issue v.-, noticed that w . had 'receiv3®P let.er from a debtor, making certain!® P-aint a against the alleged haxdshipS I the rules of the Debtor,' W? J|. stating that "on New Year's Day®: friends of persons confined there for JS|l were not allowed to visit them Tt the taii:hey had received orders from J?"'" Jailor t , have all the vriv« o/ dIS I visiting them searched in th e -a m l £31 1 as women swnt there dadv ior 1 n Tr u elC - We at the publish the letter, as the not affix _ Lis name to it for pubUcaisfe ° From imormation which we v, are received. -~e were hi to in* a ire into toe matter, and we find thSiH statements made in that letter are uttefc 1 false. Friends are alJowed to viM tors eery cay except or. s™j Mlf | "Holidays, at _ which times there I so many visitants that it would be I impossible for the turnkey, to Jl 1 either the debtors or wen*-. S the same ward from making their e«JNf 1 with them. Wives and families, hoS® nave been silo we j to visit the - every day, Sundays and holidays iadSl ? ncr are women searched when risigg#- 1 tnem. *"&« there are good nomdilp supposing that they intend to intioM'l liquor or other articles not permitted!® the rules of the prison. There has^M'l occurred no instance in which the MfiP I or relatives of any debtor ha<"^ffl y l searched. _ We are glad to be « a 3M tips to give this unqualified denial to (SI $ l statements which sometime? appear yßjJp '■ § are frequently sought to 'be introdnSii " into the pubnc journals bv a certaw® debtor against those who Live tie nils pleasing duty of holding watch and waSp over him, and trust that this exposure will have the effect of stopping the jjpl called for profusion of complaints whiffl® has lately, and without any reasorabjif cause, found their way from the DebtcS® Prison to the columns of the Au&raft press. ' «£8 = ;?JB' " ; ;lsß|