Treatment of Stowaways
(Per Press Association). DUNEDIN, June 7. At a meeting of the Patients' ami Prisoners' Aid Society the agent 'brought under notice the question of sending stowaways to gaol, having -petial l efeionce to two young men who arrived a few days ago from London and were sent to prison. He doubted whether such sentences would have any deterrent effect on people in the home country, and .•.uggested that, if the law must be vindicated and as stowaways cannot be sent hack that they should 'he conv.ct.ed and ordered cul , le U|) sentence when called on, <„■ admitted to probation. Thev might have m them the making of'good co-on,s-ts and it wns undesirable llml then 1,,-st colonial ac tjl uuintaiu'es should be criminals. It was resolved to communicate with the Minister for Justice on the subject.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 132, 8 June 1904, Page 3
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137Treatment of Stowaways Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 132, 8 June 1904, Page 3
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