GAOL FOR PALMERSTON.
Dcrlvg a deputation to the Hon. T. M. Wilford at Napier there was some discussion concerning the prisons. -Mr. V\ llford stated that the Napier prison had to go. The Department had several prisons with tracts of land in the South Island, and there were prospects of a large gaol being established at Palmerston. If the Napier site was sold for £5000 it would go a lone way towards buying this site. He gave some particulars of the system working at Waikaria, and asked if the Americans in their honour system could equal it. At this farm five prisoners without anv warder left at 6.50 a.m. or so and went to their work two miles away with three teams of horses. _ They took their lunch and came back in time for tea. Of course, this sort of thing would not do in all cases, and there were some men who could not be treated otherwise than as criminals. However the system was working with most excellent results, and a place like the Napier gaol 'had to go.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16783, 25 February 1918, Page 7
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180GAOL FOR PALMERSTON. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16783, 25 February 1918, Page 7
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