POOR SOIL FOR CRIME
MR. WILFORD PRAISES PRISON WORK GRAVE OFFENCES RARE (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter. / WELLINGTON, To-day. A fine tribute to the Prisons Board and the work of prison authorities was paid by Mr. T. M. Wilford last evening, in the House of Representatives. New Zealand, said Mr. Wilford, was remarkably free from serious crime, when compared with countries such ns America, where, in Chicago, It was said, “every man’s a man and every man’s a target.” In Wellington, despite its waterfront and polyglot visitors coming from all parts of the globe, there was only one serious crime before the recent Supreme Court sessions, that being the case of a “lady who tried to make her husband love her by giving him rat poison.” In Masterton, again, there was only one criminal case for the coming session. The reasons were to be found in the indeterminate sentence system. Borstal institutions, summary jurisdiction conferred on magistrates, and the right given to declare old “lags” habitual crimir ..Is All this had cleared courts of criminal classes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 1 September 1928, Page 11
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175POOR SOIL FOR CRIME Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 1 September 1928, Page 11
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