FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22435, 3 June 1936, Page 10

FIFTY YEARS AGO

PRISONERS IN THE CITY WIVES BY LOTTERY To judge from the following it®ff which appeared in the New Zsala>*» Herald of June 3. 1886. prisoners were put to work in the heart of the city half a century ago. "The hard labour gtuig from Mount Eden Guol is. under the supervision of a warder, making- the surrounding® of the High Street Law Courts more presentable." the item stated.' Other it-ems in the same issue were as follows:—"An interesting exhibition, that of the Strasbourg Clock, will » opened to-day at Onehunga and co - tinucd throughout the week, at (i which it will be taken to the Yiaikato"A site has been selected for the n town hall at Parnell. , Several designfor the new .building have teen PV pared, and it is understood the wor will bo undertaken by a joant st _ company and the prospectus will issued iu a few days." .. "At the House of Representative* yesterday the chairman of the Petit Committee brought down the a on the petition of Mr. T. B Hansford. of Auckland, for an enlargement, of the Gaming and Lotteries Acti as to allow him to start an inde:«Jj number of matrimonial lotteries. ■ committee cannot recommend the ( pe tion for favourable consideration.