THE BAUME CASE.
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS STATEMENT BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. Regarding the Baume case, the Hon. F. J. Rollfston said the Government had the fullest confidence in nicrnhers of the Prisons Hoard. The suggestion that Judges of the Supremo Court were subject to any influence, social or otherwise, was so unwarranted as not to call for a reply. As far as he was concerned lie had never been approached, directly or indirectly, in the matter of Baumc's release. In regard io the charge of preferential treatment having been accorded Baume, the Prisons Department had categorically, denied Bcv. Howard Elliott's statements. Mr Eliott is clearly under a misapprehension as lo preferential treatment in contravention of the prisons regulations, and is apparently unaware that the regulations that apply to the Borstal inmates were those made under the Prevention of Crimes Act, 192-1, which are entirely different from those under the Prisons Act.
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Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16947, 9 November 1926, Page 8
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