AN ALLEGED PRISON
BORSTAL INSTITUTION PETITION TO PARLIAMENT (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Alleging that the Borstal institution at Invercargill is in reality a prison and not a reformatory school, the Rev. Frank Sampson, of Invercargill, has petitioned tho House of Representatives through Mr. W. M. Denham (Lab., Invercargill) asking for an investigation into its administration, and that the Invercargill Borstal be taken out of tho control of the Prisons Department. The petitioner repeats the protest in a former petition against being removed from the official visitors’ list of tho Borstal in September, 1934, and then being asked to resign, being given no opportunity of replying to some complaints against him. “The hostility of the department," be adds, “indicates that no reform is possible from within under the present, administration.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19139, 7 October 1936, Page 5
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