THE NEW BAILEY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8753, 1 March 1907, Page 2

THE NEW BAILEY.

Press Association. —Copyright. London, February 28.

King Edward, on opening the New Bailey, remarked that the old buildings were of great historical interest, for they had witnessed during the past century a change in the administration of criminal justice far greater than had occurred in any preceding century. The barbarous penal codes deemed necessary a hundred years ago had been gradually replaced in the progress of the nation towards a higher civilisation by laws breathing a more humane spirit and aiming at a nobler purpose. It was well, ho said, that crime should bo punished, but better that the criminal should be reformed. (Applause.) Tho mercy shown to first-offenders often ro-shaped their lives, but still more remained to be accomplished in reclaiming those who had fallen into crime.