WORK FOR PRISONERS.
g IKj — I see in your columns, parties sentenced by our worthy Magistrate to hard labor ; can you tell me what that said term hard labor means ? Is it breaking a few pieces of firewood or pumping some water now and again for the .Railway engines, with one or two bobbies looking at them. Is there no j way they could be put to improve the Town, now that the Town Board is defunct ; for instance the gratings inDee- , street require to be overhauled and repaired, but I need not point out any more places, as there is so much to be done. In other Provinces, I believe they are put to break stones by task; could'nt stones be brought from the Mokomoko ; our streets would be the better of being macdamised. Is it an absolute necessity that the Province should be at the ■ expense of keeping, and watching prisoners to do nothing while there is plenty of work upon which they could be employed. Their cost is considerable, and 1 think their labor should be used to lessen it. I am, Sir, yours truly, G-bowlee. Invercargill, 30th Jan., 1866. — «»
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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 210, 31 January 1866, Page 3
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193WORK FOR PRISONERS. Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 210, 31 January 1866, Page 3
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