NEW ZEALAND CRIMINALS.
AN AUSTRALIAN COMPLAINT. REPUTED BY CHIEF JUSTICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, Wednesday. A serious charge that habitual criminals were being released in New Zealand on condition that they went to Australia was made recently by one of the Sydney daily papers and was supported in some measure by the Inspector General of Police for New South Wales. The matter was brought under the notice of the Acting Premier, who requested the Chief Justice (who is president of the Prisons Board) to report upon the matter. This report is now to hand, with the result that Sir F. D. Bell is able to give an emphatic denial to Australian allegations. Sir Robert Stout states that he has been on the Prisons Board since its inception, and does not know of any case in which criminals, habitual or otherwise, have been released in New •Zealand on condition that they took their departure to Australia. So far as ordinary releases on probation are concerned, in almost all cases prisoners have to report in New Zealand, and he was not aware of a single case in which they were ordered to report anywhere else but in New Zealand. A prisoner of Australian birth or residence may havg gone there upon release, but never upon condition that he should go there.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1439, 13 December 1923, Page 5
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219NEW ZEALAND CRIMINALS. Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1439, 13 December 1923, Page 5
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