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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 December 1927, Page 7

Condemnation of the callous attitude shown in certain quarters towards men who have served a term of imprisonment is the keynote of a portion of the annual report of the Wellington Discharged Prisoners* Aid Society presented at the annual meeting last week. “Following his release, the ex-prisoner is a moral invalid needing after-care,” says the report. “The recidivist will generally callously face a hard world but the man who leaves the prison cells after his first visit or even his second sentence requires as much sympathetic help as the physically convalescent. If employment can promptly be found, and the current of his life guided into proper channels, success should follow. The problem in the latter instance is always difficult If a moral miracle could be performed, and a complete severance from the old life and its companionships and environments achieved, every social worker knows that a solution is in sight. But the tendency is to drift back, and without much opportunity for employment, that tendency is almost impossible to correct. That has made the society’s efforts rather difficult during many months of the year.’’ Flight to Pcf> : It is authoritatively leainad in New York that that Colonel Lindbergh will accompany Commander Byrd on his Hight to the fkuith Pole v 'mtimi.s between . ;hem are piuieediiig.