PRISON LABOUR
SHOULD IT BE USED ON ROADS? The following circular letter has been addressed by the Rotorua Chamber ot Commorce to all chambers of commerce, county councils, and automobile associations in the Dominion:—
Dear Sir, —At a. recent general meeting of/the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce the following resolution was passed unanimously:—
"That representations be made to the Government, asking that prison labour be utilised in making ana maintaining the main arterial roads of the Dominion, and that the various chambers of commerce, county councils, and automobile associations bo circularised asking for, their support in thi a matter." X am directed by my Chamber 1:o ask for your co-operation and assistance, principally for tho fbilowing reasons:— (a) The deplorable state of the roads in question, making them almost impassable, thereby entailing hardship, increasing cost of transport, retarding settlement, etc. (b) Tho various local bodies, county councils, eic., having practically no funds available for tie purpose. (c) Tho Government also having announced that owing to the war, grants for such purposes must be curtailed. (d) In other countrios where prison labour'is utilised in the making of roads, the work has proved beneficial to tho prisoners theinselvos, morally an<Tphysically, and splendid roads have resulted. (e) The of free labour makes the present time opportune for the utilisation of prison labour in the making and maintenance of reads. If the foregoing resolution, and the reasons set forth in support or it, meet with your , approval, my Chamber would ho pleased if 'you would enlist the active support of your Parliamentary representative in regard to tho matter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2912, 26 October 1916, Page 3
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263PRISON LABOUR Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2912, 26 October 1916, Page 3
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