PRISONS BOARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18952, 28 August 1923, Page 2

PRISONS BOARD.

REPORT FOR YEAR 1922. SATISFACTORY PROGRESS. (From Odr Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, August 2Y. Sir Robert Stout states that during the year the Prisons Board visited all the prisons and prison institutions in the dominion, and has to express its sntisfeation at the continued progress made by the Department in advancing its various undertakings, and in improving from year to year the facilities that are provided under its enlightened system for the rehabilitation of the prisoners under its charge. Among other places visited was the Hautu Land Development Camp, near Lake Taupo, where the members of the Board found every reason to feel pleased with the energy displayed by the officers of the Department in pressing forward the various branches of work involved in clearing, breaking in, and laying down in grass the entrance block to the large area of country that has been allotted to the Department by the Government for opening up for future settlement. Thirty probationers petitioned the Board, compared with 17 the previous year, which is ample proof that the provision relating to discharge from probation is being more widely availed of. Of the 30 applicants, 21 were granted a discharge, whilst the balance were refused, The attention.of the Government is_ again directed to the resolution embodied in the Board reports for the last two years regarding- sexual offences.