IN PRISON GARB.
A SORRT SIGHT IN THE STREETS. Two sandwich men, clothed in the orthodox prison clothes, stalked the main streets of Wellington on Saturday, bearing advertisement-boards with a reference to the Waihi miners, who preferred gaol to entering into a bond to keep tho peace. The sight these men mesenteu. instead of gaining sympathy with the misled miners, only succeeded in creating disgust for tho methods pursued by the Federation of : Labour. "The regulation prison dress is a State uniform for those who have been condemned for an offence against the laws of the "country," said a visitor from Australia, "and a ' private individual has no more right to wear it in the streets than you or I have to wear a constable's uniform. I wonder that the police or tho Mayor does not interfere I"
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1558, 30 September 1912, Page 4
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138IN PRISON GARB. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1558, 30 September 1912, Page 4
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