NEW PRISON SITE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 211, 31 May 1919, Page 7

NEW PRISON SITE

AT TRENTHAJi: AND HERETAUNGA.; l-'or yeavs past Uio Government author!, lies havo been considering tho advisability of abandoning the' Terrace Gaol'Jsito as a prison and transferring its inmates to a freer locality beyond the cityAs bounds, 'where, prison, labour could bo ueed In . better, lulvantage" than is tlio onso at; present. The "present Minister of Justice is wholly in favour of tho change, -and his intentions are shadowed in a. notice that appears in this week's Gazette. Tho notice, is to tho effect that the Governor-General, in pursuance of ijowera conferred by. section G of tho Vublio Reserves a'mrDomains Act, 1908, declares tho purpose of ;l certain reserve changed from a rifle range to it site'for a prison. TliD/land, referral, to is an area-of _362 acres 1 rood'S" perches, parts of sections illi, 100, 10t, -]08, ; 105, 101!, and 206, Hutt Registration District, Hlock I, Rinmtaka, Survey District The land is ou the cainp side of,-the railway, and fronts tho railway lino for about; , ' 2J- chains, commencing from tho corner of the school site almost, opposite Horotaunga. Railway Station. " Tho lioliee is issued subject 16 tho pro' visions of section 7 of the Act. According to this section, before the eb'angoof purposo becomes effective th.e notice must bo gazetted during four consecutiveweeks,- and -bn laid before ■ Parliament; within ten days of the commencement of the session. Tf either House of Par.liaraont.during the, session declares by resolution that it does not..assent'hi the .change, then no further action -shall bo taken in tho matter., If nn such .resolu-: tion is passed, theti from the. end-of the session the notico shall be ollectual.