PRISONERS’ DEPENDENTS
A curious anomaly in connection with the system of payment of wages to prisoners, which has been in operation in New Zealand since January, 1921, was brought to the potice of a reporter (states the Lyttelton Times). The Government has provided for the payment of wages to prisoners with necessitous dependants only after three months of their sentences have been served ; but, curiously enough, has stipulated that no payments shall be made to prisoners serving sentences for disobedience 'of maintenance orders, with the result that the wives of defaulting husbands are placed in a much worse position than the wives of common criminals. The total amount paid put to dependants of prisoners for the first seven months of the year 1921 was £2130. It will thus be seen that the cost per annum to the State, even of a limited scheme of wages payment, is. by no means inconsiderable. The cash earnings of the Department for, the last fipancial year amounted to over £39,000.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4451, 9 August 1922, Page 1
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166PRISONERS’ DEPENDENTS Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4451, 9 August 1922, Page 1
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