THE PROBATION LAW.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16495, 4 August 1921, Page 5

THE PROBATION LAW.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 3. f Several nrisoners appeared at the Supreme Court for sentence before Mr Justice Adams, and in granting probation to a forger his Honor took occasion to express his views on the meaning of probation, and a- 1 so, in another case to refer incidentally to the Court ot Appeal’s recent decision in regard to the “standard of punishment.” “ TheCourt of Appeal,” said his Honor, ! “did not, in fact, lay down any new ■ principle. The application of the principle has been in practice for twenty years.” “ Probation,” said his Honor at a later stage, “ is not license to do wrong, nor it is very desirable tv differentiate it from punishment in actual fact. It is itself, in my judgment, a somewhat serious punishment. A prisoner put on probation must understand that he must be exceedingly careful to comply implicitly with the directions of the probation officer ana with the conditions laid down in the 1920 Act.”