COURT ACCOMMODATION.

NZ Truth, Issue 101, 25 May 1907, Page 6

COURT ACCOMMODATION.

A Shameful State of Affairs.

-It -is about -timn that the'Publitf Works' Department, or the Rusty Nail Department, or whatever s-haw; it is that; tries to look after tHe public buildings when it's sober, c a £t its swivel eye over 'the ' Christchurch Supreme Court. The sanitary arrangements are something damnable; if they } can 'be called sanitary ar-r rangements. Women and children witnesses are cooped up m a ro^fti devoid of conveniences all day, and for many days at a time- There list provision these, but it was never completed, ditto with prisoners' room upstairs, to say nothing of the jurors' room. Pans are provided for the prisoners, and these have to be carried 'down through the ' Courtroom every morning, the stench being something dreadful ;. the fumes of sheol and' its incidental malodorous ; plague-spots are nothing to it. The ! Justice Department shouldn't allow such an almost intolerable state of ith ngs to continue. . It should word^ the Public Works' Department on the" matter, and after -the Publ c Works' Department has thought the matter over for a year or two lit might possibly send its -spare boy to dp the work. ■