THE ELECTION PETITIONS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 190, 20 April 1915, Page 4

THE ELECTION PETITIONS

PINAL W ;i Si Thto Jaft l Yhe. lFuIl | morning on tie final qixfestioV th& f election cases. The Court find® thpj the electoral roll is not where the question of statics is cq®> cerned, .but is conclusive where regularity is oi?e of procedure DVerej^ MR. HERD MAN INTERVIEWED. OUR PRISON SYSTEM-. WELLINGTON, This Day. Interviewed, Mr. Herdman said h« believed more useful work is being done by prisons than ever in the hietory of the. Dominion. Operations as*, conducted on more systematic prince pies. The Auckland prison was tfift-" ,l convict establishment”; a final wing is nearing completion and when money was available he proposed to takesteps to establish a separate instttn* ton for females. He hoped that would enable them to commence a satisfactory system of classification at that prison. Nearly 60 prisoners were af the new* gaol at Waikerie, about ten miles from Te Awamutu. A wing to accommodate 80 prisoners would becompleted within six mouths. Regarding the Wellington gaol: ftf. soon as the building at Point Halsweß was completed, men would be moved out of town, and that wouold mean on* penal establishment for Wellington',instead of three. One hundred and forty thousand trees had been planted afr Halswell, and ninety thousand more would be put in during the coming winter. When the new prison nbar Templeton, Canterbury, was completed, the South Island would have enough prisons to accommodate them for - many years. ' V:■ When war clouds rolled away he proposed to introduce legislation which would enable the Crown to . releag* prisoners of good behaviour upon probation, and'remedy any-fnijnstiee which may arise from imposition of unequal! ■ punishment. It w*ould also be necessary for the State to take charge of inebriates, at present at Rotoroa and Pa’Sfatoa. If those institutions were controlled by the Government it would insist upon all inmates being employed In healthy, suitable occupations.