NEW PRISONS POLICY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 16 June 1914, Page 3

NEW PRISONS POLICY

_ *^_- — FURTHER DETAILS STATEMENT BY HON, A. L. HERDMAN, Some further particulars ef the new policy of prisons administration which lias been adopted by the Government, were made public yesterday by the Hon. A. I*4 Herdman (Minister of justice). Touching upon the plans of the Department regarding tho caiißtruc'ticni of a large prison at Waiheriix, near Te Awamutu, en a property of 1200 acres, ■ the Minister said that" this work was proceeding apace. It vras estimated . that when completed the institution would hold 250 prisoners, and that then the accommodation required at Wellington would lie for not mow thaa 100 - men. A large percentage, of tile prisoners now housed in the Wellington in- . stitution would bo sent to Waikeria.. "The Department's policy of gaol • construction for the North Island, au I 6tated last year," continued Mr. Herdman, "is to have a largo gaol at Auckland, Mount Eden; another of considerable size in the cgtuitry at Waifcorfei, . a gaol at Now Plymouth for habituals,, . a small placo at Gishonie, and a prison i srmewhere handy to W'eßiri.gfcoß largo enough for, say, 100 short-sentence and ' waiting-trial prisoners. A Small gaol eomewhere out of town, perhaps at Point Halswell, will be huiit to serve the comparatively small, number €sf pri#oners that the Depajiiwjirfc will havo to deal with after Waikeria. is finished.. As to the South island, the- .requirements there will be met by the- Invercargill prison, which is riot, "yet finished., a small,prison in Dutradin, a large prison in Canterbury, say,' a-bout Tehj* pleton, and the women's prison at Aldington, which has heen completed. A prison camp has been established at Waimarino, or the Tongarirq National Park. The InvercargiH a»d Mount Eden prisons have heen added to. Large excavation works have been undertaken at Waikeria, about 10,000 eonerete Hocks for tho new building hftvo been niaiui- • faccurcd, and the foundations of the new prison havo been coamencod." The site at Tempfefon to- which it is proposed to transfer LyiieMoii prison i was situated some tivelvo miles from i Christchurch. It bad been vested for years in the Defence Department. Heports concerning the property had been . obtained from the Crown lands ranger and an experienced member of tho C'ati- , terbury Land Board' a-3 to its suitaMlity for prison purposes, and he had given instructions for a'farther report to be obtained from Ohe manager of the State Farm in Canterbury. . Discipline and Management. "My difficulties in connection with ' prison management since I assumed charge," said Mr. Herdtoau. "hare not been so much difficulties regarding accommodation as <liffeukie's relating to discipline and internal management. But all these difficulties are being gradually overcome, and, in the opinion of [ Mr. Jordan, the tfiider-Secro'rary !of ; Justice, in which I concur, when, the 1 programme of the new prisons I have '. mentioned has heen eempleted the fcfl»: '■ ditions obtaining in our gaols should i bo quite satisfactory: " "Dr. Hay, Inspector-General of Hospitals, who had quite enough work to i do looking after his mental hospitals, 1 has resigned from the office of Inspector ; >of Prisons. Mr. C. E.' Matthews, who ' for tho past two years has been. <the assistant inspector, doing little else, hutvisit gaol after gaol, suggesting improvements, pointing oat 'weaknesses. ■ and keeping tho staff uj> to the mark, ; takes Dr. Hay's place, and Mr. Haw* kins, who has been in charge of Ittv«cargill, and who, ift addition to heinfc a good gaol manager, is an experienced builder and roadma.ker, has aspointed overseer of works, it will be his business to visit the various institutions in which works ate carried on, for tho purpose of ensuring that the different projects are being undertaken expeditiously, economically,, and on sound lines. Incidentally, jris experience as a gaoler will enatde him to furnish the Department with useful advice oil questions of interns.! admjnistratioij." The New Acbo.rh.rhodatlo.ri, •When the prison-lroiMing policy is ' completed, there will bo the following available prison accommodation in New Zealand:— NORTH ISLAND, I Auckland 350 Waikeria 2flti ' Now Plymouth SO Napier 30 Wellington 80 'PRISON GAMPS. ' . Waipa 30 Kaingaroa fiO Waimarino (National Park) 20 Total , BSO SOUTH ISLAM). Templeton ISO Addington (women) 40 Dunedin *..... 25 1 InvercargiH 200 i - Total , 443 | Completing tJie Coast Road, "If, when Waikeria is finished and' ' the Terrace closed,, a small institution , is "built at Point HalsweJ)," the Minister i stated'in conclusion, "there will be ; abundance of work fo.r the men to do. As it was, the prisoners planted 131,000 : trees on Point Halswell storing laaS. season, and there is no. reason why their , energies should not' he utilised for the , purpose of making tho road round the harbour fronting the Defence Heserve | through Seatoun to' Breaker Bay, and ■ • thence to Island Bay, one of tho finest, drives in tho Dominion." Nearly everyone is liable to uric acid trouble, and yet many persist in disregarding the first And swellings in the joints, stiffness and soreness ' in the muscles. These symptoms Show that the liver and kidjiej-s a'ro not doingtheir work properly—excess uric acid is accumulating in the Mood. This; iarje acid may accumulate for a. long time with- ' out serious trouble. But its sOfiji as yen I are run down or exposed ie cold or damp, . it will surely assert itself. This excess , acid must be removed, «rid tho one irem- ' cdy that will do it is RILEUMO, Eb.cumo neutralises and eradicates the excess and leaves the blood free antl pure. 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