HABITUAL VAGRANTS
NEARLY 40,000 IN ENGLAND. By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. Reoeived 10.24 p.m , Maroh 6. London, March 6. The Departmental Committee on Vagrancy, appointed by Mr Long during tbe late Parliament, reports that habitual vagranoy is increasing. The present system neither deterred nor reolaimed. A thorough reform was neoesrary. The oommittoe submits a soberne for plaoing a vagrant more under the cagtrol of tbe police, helping tbe bona fide wayfarer, and providing means of detaining habitual vagrants under reformatory treatment in compulsory labor colonics. It is estimated tboro are between thirty aud forty thou sand habitual vagrant?.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1691, 7 March 1906, Page 2
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