“UNJUST AND CRUEL.”
A HAMILTON SENTENCE. MR NASH’S INDIGNATION. Trenchant criticism of the sentence of 12 months’ reformative detention imposed on a single man In the Supreme Court at Hamilton last week for forging a document to obtain work with the Public Works Department was made by Mr W. Nash, M.P., addressing a meeting of Hamilton electors last night. “This man got 12 months’ imprisonment because he lied to get work," stated Mr Nash. "He stated he was a married man in order to get work. It may he said he had been convicted six times previously.
“I don't care what his record Is. I still say that there Is nothing more cruel, unjust or unfair than to sentence a man to Imprisonment for lying to got work.”
There was a commotion at the back of the hall, and someone shouted that the prisoner had robbed another. "Surely a lie to get work is not robbery,” replied Mr Nash. Mr Nash added that lie was not defending lying, but he maintained tint the sentence he had referred to was easily the most unfair, unjust and cruel ever imposed in this country.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18392, 28 July 1931, Page 8
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