HOPE FOR PRISONERS
TREE-PLANTING CAMPS EST NEW SOUTH WALES.
By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright. (Received September 26, 8.55 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 26.
Mr W. A. Holman, State AttorneyGeneral, has selected a site at Tuncurry, 103 miles from Newcastle, for a prisoners’ tree-planting camp. He proposes to immediately clear one thousand acres in order to allow the work to proceed. Prisoners in camp will bo allowed to earn money and remission of sentences, and will also he tanght scientific farming, so as to enable them to take up land at the conclusion of their sentences.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7916, 27 September 1911, Page 7
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