PRISON POPULATION REDUCED.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14820, 20 October 1920, Page 5

PRISON POPULATION REDUCED.

Fly Telesjrnph.

(Special fa tht" Ma it. > tt'KT.M.V<;T»>X. i'.>. In tile last complete period Fiefnre the war. there was a daily aveniLce of 85):}.2t prisoners in the X»'tr Zoafarid Itanfa, but the prisons report shows that IllSt ypn.r there was a. rtear rrr.liirtinrt prison enminal popitratron tor (ll» first year after tip' war in romparr»n with the pre-war year. Thi- i-t'milH-ntly *atisfai'tory in view of tti»" iirten expressed opinion that tfi* v roniHB |)f would he .-.iynulNed I>y a. marked increase of crime in air the Ijonntni-s enL'aiO',l i„ u; , r activities, lllw reason for this soni 'what tmexperC- ? t P™'tion is, states the report, proIHIMy that up to tie- present time we ,Ir '' t!i)at,ni:_- upon a. wave of uppiirpnt prosperity. E'lmuFovment is pNtlhir, wa-.-s are hi-h. 'and there is '»"!« poverty. rf the conditions f Fiance "f the worse ir p,,..,,jbji. tlia.r tiochnn«|. ,v,|| he retried in the criminal ItiltlStll'H.