VISITING CLERGY TO GAOLS.
(PER press association.) Wellington, May 22. A deputation from the Wellington Ministers’ Association representing all sects except the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, waited on the Minister of Justice to-day, and asked that the position of clergymen other than those of the two bodies mentioned, might be defined in in so far as visits to gaols were concerned ; also that they might have permission to hold a monthly service at the Terrace Prison. It was pointed out that prisoners were grouped under three heads, Protestants, Catholics and Jews, and while a minister of any of these three divisions might see a prisoner privately, but should a "Wesleyan, Congregationalist or Presbyterian Minister desire to do so he had to converse in the presence of a warder. It was submitted to the Minister that this is not quite proper or fair. The Minister in reply promised to have enquiries made as tlie Government are only too anxious that prisoners should be ministered to by ministers belonging to their own Churches.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1901, Page 3
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172VISITING CLERGY TO GAOLS. Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1901, Page 3
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