SUPPRESSION OF NAMES.
ANXIETY OF ARCHBISHOP, " PRESENT POSITION ABSURD." ENCOURAGEMENT TO CRIME. "1 should like to sppak of a matter that is worrying me considerably," said Archbishop Averill at the nnnnal meeting of the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society yesterday, "and that is the growing practice of suppressing the names of men wfio appear in the Police Court. The present position is absurd. A doctor was recently found drunk while driving his car, and when he was charged in the Court, his name was suppressed " Mr. R. Marsack (ex-Superintendent of Police): Why should it lie? It is not right that there should be one law for the rich and another for the poor. It is all very well to suppress the name of a first offender in some cases, but the thing has been done' to death. "It has rot only been done to death," said the Archbishop, "but it is even a direct encouragement to crime," "That is so," remarked Mr. Marsack. "Publicity is the greatest of all deterrents, and there is no doabt whatever about it, the whole system of suppression of names is being flagrantly overdone." 4
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19144, 9 October 1925, Page 10
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