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Otago Witness, Issue 3581, 31 October 1922, Page 23

A country magistrate has made the discovery that “reformative detention’* in 1 New Zealand differs not at all from “hard j labour.” In each case the prisoners do the same work, eat the same food, observe j tiie same hours, and occupy the same ; kind of cells in the same building. Trio 1 prison tunic, in deference to the feelings of visiting friends, is of a different colour. A Waikato resident has received rather a significant indication of the hard times in Scotland in the shape of a one-penny ticket sold on the tram ears at Glasgow. The ticket is issued by the Corporation Tramways as a means of obtaining money to help these who are “down and out.” 1 The back of the ticket hears the inscripi tion : “Unemployment.—if every person 1 who has a job purchases a rent ticket dad , every necessitous unemployed person will be assured of a. roof over his or her head during ihe hard winter months.” Ihe tickets are supplied i<> the cot din tors, who do their host to sell them to the pas.-en-