AN EXCHANGE
CHRISTCHURCH HOME FOR MOUNT 1 COOK SITE. . The exchange of Te Aranga Home, near Christchurch, for a portion of tho Mount Cook site in Wellington was mentioned in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr. Witty (Riccarton) asked if it was. true that the Te Aranga Homo and its estates were to be used as a prison. ■ The Minister of Justice (Hon. 1. M. Wilford) said that tho Minister of Education had offered the Te Aranga Homo to the Justice Department in exchange for a portion of the prison site _at Mount Cook, now required for technical education purposes. The exchange could not be completed without legislation, and a proposal would be placed before the House during the session. Mr. Wilford added that the Justice Department proposed to use the home a 9 an institution for the detention of girls who had come before the Courts for the first time, in order that these young and inexperienced offenders ■ might _ be kept apart from women of the criminal class and given a chance to reform. He believed from his own Couri experience that there was great need of such an institution.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 32, 1 November 1918, Page 4
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191AN EXCHANGE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 32, 1 November 1918, Page 4
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