TREE PLANTING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16761, 10 June 1920, Page 4

TREE PLANTING.

PRISONERS’ CAAIPS GIVEN' UP. Per Press Association. AVELLINGTON, Juno 9. ' For many years it has been tho practice of the Prisons Department to employ- prisoners at tree planting, tho biggest of tho tree planting camps being at Kainuaroa, on the plains near Rotorua. This practice is to bo discontinued very shortly and the prison camp at Kaingaroa is to be broken up. From the jooint of view of the prison authorities tree planting is no longer considered to be a desirable use to make of prison labour, and tlie cost of the maintenance of camps, often with comparatively' small numbers of men in them, is considered to bo excessive. Further, the aim of tho prison authorities now is to give the prisoners work to do which will improve them for their life as free men after discharge, and this is now being done on prison farms.