REFORMATORY WORK.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14984, 11 August 1919, Page 5

REFORMATORY WORK.

CARE OF ERRING FEMALES.

•Last, session the Minister for Justice, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, v succeeded m placing on the Statute Book an amendment to the Reformatory Institutions Act, 1909, which provided, inter alia, that the Governor-General may by proclamation declare any building or place to be a State reformatory institution. This Act gives the Minister . for, Justice power at any time, by order under his hand, to transfer 1 to a State reformatory institution or reformatory home any female prisoner detained m prison for s( term whereof not more than two years remains unexpired, \ '■-./■ An attempt was made by the Minister to obtain the Te Oranga Home, at Christchurch, for this purpose, but for good and sufficient reasons this has been impossible. . . , . The Minister stated that it was fys intention to ask the Governor-General to proclaim State reformatory institutions m Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, and Dunedin. In regard to Christchurch, he said that he believed it would , be possible to make the women's prison at Addington the first State reformatory, , with accommodation elsewhere, for hardened women criminals, reserving that institution, which is eminently suitable for the purpose, for young girls and first /offenders,' as a reformatory.' ; The Minister proposes visiting Christchurch as soon, as possible, with', the inspector of prisons, to decide this question finally.