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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 30, 29 October 1921, Page 7

"Very great success .continues to attend the system of appointing skilled tradesmen for the purpose of instructing inmates of our institiitions and prisons in 'various trades and callings/’ states the Inspector of Prisons in his annual report. "At one time there probably four or five officers employed in the whole of our prisons wEb happened to be tradesmen, whose services were made use of to a limited extent, but such officers had, in addition, to carry out their ordinary disciplinary duties. The newer and better system, whereby a staff of tradesmen officers are attached to each prison ' whose sole duty is to supervise and direct th’e prisoners in the particular trade which they represent, must of itself ,prove beneficial both to the Department and the prisoners. We have a staff of carpenter instructors, tailors, bricklayers, plumbers, shoemakers, electricians, dairy experts, mechanical engineers, quarry managers, farm manager's, •«choolmastoTS, drill instructors, etc. It is not claimed on behalf of the Department that competent tradesmen in the proper sense of the term are being turnout, t>uT I think it cannot be denied that the training given and the experience gained must prove useful in afterlife to many of those who have passed through our institutions. Tn fact, I am in a position to state that the experience gained has—not in one instance, but in dozens of cases —enabled men to go outside and take up work and make a success of it.”

■Over 62,000 private wells were damaged f>r destroyed in Trance during the war. ■ The Bible is on an average translated iato about ten new languages every year.