Increase of Vagrancy.
PRESENT SYSTEM INADEQUATE.
REPORT OF DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE.
London, March 6
The Departmental Committee Appointed last year by Mr W. H. Long, who was President of the Local Government Board in the Balfour Ministry, to consider the question of vagrancy, has submitted its report. The committee finds that habitual vagrancy is increasing, |kc present system neither deterring nor reclaiming. The committee! states that thorough reform of the present methods is necessary, and submits a scheme for placing the vagrant more under the control of the police. Recommendations are made for helping the bona-fide wayfarer and providing means for detaining the habitual vagrant under reformatory treatment in compulsory labour colonies. It is estimated by the committee that there ■ are between thirty thousand and forty thousand fcabitqal vagwatr.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3621, 8 March 1906, Page 3
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128Increase of Vagrancy. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3621, 8 March 1906, Page 3
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