PRISON LABOUR
DISCONTINUANCE OF TREE PLANTING FARM WORK TO HE SUBSTITUTED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON. June. !). For many years it has been the practice of the-Prisons Department to employ prisoners at tree-plant inp. the bippest of the irce-plantinp camps being at Kaingaroa, on the plains near Rotorua. This practice is to be discontinued very shortly, and the prison canijt at Kainparoa is to he broken up, probably about the end of next month. From the point of view of the prison 1 authorities, tree-planting is no lonper con- ; sidered to be a desirable use to make of | prison labour. The cost nf maintenance of j the camps, often with comparatively small; numbers of men in them, is considered to 1 he excessive. The aim of the authorities j now is to give prisoners work to do which 1 will improve them for their life as free men | after discharge. This is now being done on prison farms.
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Southland Times, Issue 18845, 10 June 1920, Page 5
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158PRISON LABOUR Southland Times, Issue 18845, 10 June 1920, Page 5
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