PRISON REFORM.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13928, 6 April 1909, Page 5

PRISON REFORM.

TWp GAOLS TO BE CLOSED.

*• Per Pr«ss Association. WELLINGTON, April 5. The Government has decided on an advanced scheme, of prison reform. This afternoon Dr. Findlay 'stated that the Wanganui and Hokitika gaols are to bo closed and possibly one or * two other small prisons. This will result in the saving of a very large sum annually. The Government proposes establishing reformatory farms, possibly one in each Island to begin with. The idea is to get young men now in prisons to turn to some honest employment when released, and the agency of the Labour Department's officers will be used in the obiect in view. Dr. Findlay estimates that prisoners "at the tree-planting camps (allowing for the worth of thoir labour) maintain themand leave a balance of £15 4s 3d.

The way it was long, and the road it was dark. And tho 'wayfarer fell in the pond in the park. And it filled him right up to the Plimsoll mark. And not only filled but chilled him ! He contrived to get home all a shiver and shake, Ho\l n terrible cold and had swallowed a lake. But Woods' Peppermint Cure .vhey mdurod him to take, Or tho cold that he caught wouW have killed him. 6