BETTER TREATMENT
BRITISH PRISONERS WIDER APPLICATION OF SCHEME LONDON, June 4. Making his first speech in the House of Commons as Home Secretary »n the debate on prisoners, Sir Samuel Hoare said that the experiment of appealing to the better instincts of prisoners was succeeding and was nowbeing extended to the convict prisons at Chelmsford, Parkhurst, and Dartmoor, where the men were being given the opportunity to earn wages to buy cigarettes, and were being allowed other relaxations. Mr. G. Muff (Labour), emphasising the need for charitableness, said, “We are sinners all. On Coronation Day 62 spoons were pinched from the House of Commons, by members of the House, their intimate friends or relatives.’’
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 7
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