PRISON GATE MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 623, 28 September 1909, Page 6

PRISON GATE MISSION.

£&&?: SALVATION " ;i';;rt^H6lffi f ;MoOTEp:'AT;iSlA]OT'/-3Ay". ; ;•;' • ' . : K'.One ; :ofr.tKci': specialties, r,in. -tho '■' Solvation ;[. M&sa&ti6ti<''oi-\ persons'.: who'have been"-, iia'. ■ ,■lvprisoDedj'-andi:by{'gettiag' hold" of. Eiick at the V,:pnson^gAto,*and:jnduoiiig^thorn;tcf pursue a :;; ceriain liiie of/conduct; .much good has been genuine' cases of. reform have r ;jbeon :effecUd; r . r The'.Salj:ati6'ii iitny has bean :'-,' 'OOihgv.a.i'gqod.'deali'rathis direction; in Wei-! !/■: tyngton fqr/sqme years, not. without 'result jit/is', ;;Vhoped,ibut it. was ieit.that-much',eouiderwork ;•:. cpujd; be done if 'there , -was..'a '■ half-way..' House .'.:ig.which those 'who Buffered 'the 'penalty, ;of, :■•'!•;*!?•,'i»w .could to.; rehabilitate' .themy -Belyes under .the proper ..conditions' before going' 7:..0ut" into , theiwprld once jnbre. ■;■;,,, , :.. .'.■■'> :,;;,iThisj.purpose■:■■'has k now. : been effected; ,, iThe. ■p,;6a^vatioivAmy ; h.asipurchased.from Mr. John ."?. vNicdl,: of -'JWelluigtoni a * large .two-storied. dwelJ. '.ling- and- some; six' acres 'of. land 'at the , head -, T : of Island-.Bay, and it.-ia,iinder-;.'/'-:»to(>d..)tliit-l.the.:now .Home 'for.'discharged prip. sobers. will .'shortly become:an ; established■ fact.' ; i>Melrose 'Street -.is 'avblind [one , , that - leads' \ip .',/.■•' into the hills {.be.himV. Mr; W. ; C.\ Chatfield's IV property; on the- eastern aide-of'the'fiat: at I Island .Bay. ■'.' There-; are. several. good, sites. for ••'./houses: on):thei block, ..which-is mostly,.very ■I-hilly.' ■^■.■>y. ,^.';S.:. , ';'■■■-,;;: : '..y,,- : . : -'. :■■ ■-.

A' LETTER : OV TadTEST.

>.::'f; : : (To'J;lie; Editot <(>i the':Dbminion. ■ , : v: : Sir,—Wβ .understand.l'it ■ 'is" the : intention , - of•' the-Salvation'Army, , who have lately purchased a honseand land at'-Island Bay- (in ono of-tho most .thickly: parts) t to,convert s, the same, into a prison gate reformatory,or.honje, that is 'to say, for' the. accommodation: of .discharged /criminal from the gaols. As old . Bidents.in. theTdistrict-vfe would ask yon to .voice':'a strong protest .on beha.lfof -the inhabitants, of. Island. Bay.;again9t* the introduction of a'-criminal 1 home ;in one -of'tho, best subarba of .Wellington. It ; is almost needlessi to point put, .the disadvantages ofi:tiei introduction of thatvcjass/of.':'person -where iso' many young. . children':are.;l6cated.. r - are;, plenty of places, away from^fainilyj.residential;lpcali-.ties-that would answer a ■prison.'gate refdf;natory,.and would;miich'.bet•/.tcr ihelp -th'a. Salvation-.Army,,'in'.'their: good 'work^thdnthsono'pyoppsed.—We aio," etc, . ■!:^:t:.A%: ■ :i; : :v ; old residents.