STATE FORESTRY.
e PRISON LABOUR NOT A SUCCESS. (srECIAL TO "THE THESS.") WELLINGTON, June 9 The Government has decided to stop the use of prison labour for tree-plant-ing. The Forestry Department finds that "it can do better with ordinary labour ,_ while tho Prisons I)opartment recognises that tho cost of keeping up small prison camps for tree-planting is excessive. double saving will be effected ly the new method, and the few prisoners, who were engaged in tree-planting will be put to some still more useful occupation, either on the prison farms or at various trades.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16857, 10 June 1920, Page 6
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94STATE FORESTRY. Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16857, 10 June 1920, Page 6
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