BORSTAL A PRISON
CLERGYMAN DEMANDS INQUIRY [From Our Parliamentary REroarT.E.] WELLINGTON, October 6. 'Alleging that the Borstal institution (Invercargill) is in reality a prison, not a reformatory school, the Rev. Frank Sampson (Invercargill) has petitioned the House through Mr Denham asking for an investigation into its administration, and that the Invercargill Borstal be taken out of the control of the Prisons Department. The petitioner repeats his protest made in a former petition against being removed from the official visitors’ list of the Borstal in September, 1934, and then being asked to resign, being given no opportunity of replying to some complaint against him. “ The hostility of the department,” he adds, “indicates that no reform is possible from within under the present administration,”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19361007.2.31
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Evening Star, Issue 22463, 7 October 1936, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
122BORSTAL A PRISON Evening Star, Issue 22463, 7 October 1936, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in