"RELIC OF SAVAGERY."
NEW ZEALAND'S GAOLS. CONCERN OF CLERGYMEN. SWEEPING STATEMENTS MADE. [BT TELEGRAPH. — ASSOCIATION-.] CHBISTCHUBCH. Monday. " As for Napier Gaol, it is a criminal manufacturing association,'* passionately remarked the Rev. J. K. Archer, at a meeting of the Council of Churches tonight, when discussing a "motion that the committee should inquire into and report on the treatment of prisoners in the gaols of New Zealand. Mr. E. D. Martin, mover of the motion, said the churches had let the matter pass unheeded in the past, but the present treatment in gaols was a relic of savagery, and he gave many details.^ Mr. A. L. Bevin said that if the council supported the motion they would be taking up an attitude condemning the Justice Department on the word of one man. Mr. Archer declared that Napier Gaol was a disgrace to civilisation. What he saw _in that gaol, and he had often visited it, was positively abominable. The motion was carried. Mr. Bevin dissented, remarking that he believed that what Mr. Martin had said was a tissue of exaggerations.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17242, 19 August 1919, Page 6
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