VAGRANTS AT LARGE.
Sir. —"Simple Simon" has, with his usual simplicity, got hold of the wrong end of the stick again. The type of people we object to aro not tho "men who can prove to the Courts that they have work to go to," but the vagrants and others who come before tho Courts and aro let go, conditional upon their going into the country. Country folk maintain that it is better to keep these people in the town, where there is an efficient force of police to keep them out of mischief. I do not say that our country police are inefficient, far from it, but there are too few of them. The fact that a magistrate does not deal with an indictable offence enters into the case only after one has been committed. We are interested in seeing that they aro not committed. Prevention is better than cure. Chas. Frost.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20130, 15 December 1928, Page 16
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