NO PUBLIC INQUIRY
IVIT. EDEN GAOL TROUBLE Al INIST Elf S ST ATEMENT (Per Pross Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The statement that there will be no public inquiry into the recent trouble at Mount Eden prison was made today by the Minister of Prisons, the Hon. 11. G. R. Mason. lie said that the present system was working well. Five or six years ago, the New Zealand prison population averaged 1500 to 1000. Now it had dropped to 1000 or 1100. The Minister invited any responsible person or body, if they had evidence of injustice done to any man owing to the operation of the Habitual Criminals Act, to bring it to his attention.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 13
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114NO PUBLIC INQUIRY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 13
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