GAOLS CRITICISED
"DISGRACE TO CIVILISATION.” (Per United Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, August 18. “As for the Napier gaol, it was a criminal manufacturing association,” passionately remarked the Rev. J. K. Archer at a meeting of the Council of Churches to-night when the meeting was discussing a motion that a committee should enquire into the report on the treatment of prisoners in gaols in New Zealand. Mr R. D. Martin, the mover of the motion, said that the churches had let the matter pass unheeded in the past, but the present treatment in gaols was a relic of savagery and he gave many details. One speaker said that if the Council supported the motion, they would be taking up an attitude condemning the Justice Department on the word of one man. The Rev. J. K. Archer declared that the Napier gaol was a disgrace to civilisation. What he saw in that gaol, and he had often visited it, was positively abominable. The motion was carried, Mr Bevan dissenting and remarking that he believed that what Mr Martin had said was a tissue of exexaggerations.
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Southland Times, Issue 18620, 19 August 1919, Page 5
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182GAOLS CRITICISED Southland Times, Issue 18620, 19 August 1919, Page 5
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