NEW ZEALAND GAOLS
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS CONDEMNED. , (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Christchurch, August 18. "As for the Napier Gaol, it was a criminal manufacturing association," passionately .remarked tho Rev. J. K. Archer at a meeting of the Council of Churches to-night, when the business was the discussing of a motion that tlx committee should inquire into and report on the treatment of prisoners in tho gaols of New Zealand. Mr. R. D. Martin, the mover of the motion, said the churches had let the matter pass unheeded in the past, but tho present treatment in the gaols was a relic of savagery, and he gavo many details.
ilr. A. L. Beaven said that if the council supported the motion they would be taking up an attitude of condemning the Justice Department on the word of one man.
The Rev. J. K. Archer declared that the Napier' Gaol was a disgrace to civilisation. What he saw in that gaol, and ho had often visited it, was positively abominable.
The motion was carried, Mr. Beaven dissenting, and remarking that he believed what Mr. Martin had 6aid was a tissue of exaggerations. , ,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 277, 19 August 1919, Page 5
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188NEW ZEALAND GAOLS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 277, 19 August 1919, Page 5
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