BUSINESS SLACK.
TOO MANY COMMUTED SENTENCES, j [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Arsooiation.) Received May 31, at 10.3 p.m. Sydney, May 31. Questions in the Assembly elicited.the statement that the public hangman, whose salary was £IOO. per annum, with £lO for each execution, Jias resigned his position, presumably owing to there being no call on his professional services. Since the present Government took office seven death sentences came before,the Executive, all.of which were commuted. ■ •"" •
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10781, 1 June 1911, Page 4
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74BUSINESS SLACK. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10781, 1 June 1911, Page 4
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