"SINNERS ALL"
APPEAL FOR CHARITY SPOONS STOLEN FROM HOUSE OF COMMONS Debate On Prison Reform Press Association —Copyright. (Received 11.30 a.m.) London, June 4. In his first speech in the House of Commons as Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare said in the debiate on prisons that ithe experiment of appealing to the better instincts of prisoners was succeeding, and it was being extended to convict prisons at Chelmsford, Parkhurst and Dartmoor, where the men were being given an opportunity of earning wages to buy cigarettes, and to spend on o<ther relaxations.
Mr Muff, emphasising the need for charitableness, said: “We are sinners all. On Coronation Day 62 spoons were pinched from the House of Commons by the inti, mate friends or relatives of Members.”
Sir Samuel Hoare, the new Secretary of State for Home Affairs, told the House of Commons That the number of persons charged with drunken, ness of all kinds in the whole of the metropolitan district during Coronation week was 492.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 451, 5 June 1937, Page 5
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164"SINNERS ALL" Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 451, 5 June 1937, Page 5
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