DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 May 1920, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

. PESTS IN IMPORTED MAIZE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Tauranjra. May 20. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last night the (liiestion was raised of the serious menace to maize growing in the Dominion from (ho pests in maize imported from Fiji. A small sample exhibited here was full of weevil and the moth known as the angumois moth, which the inspector declares will prove more deadly than the fircblight in fruit trees. The position is understood to be that the inspector has no power to condemn, consequently cargoes are arriving anil the pest is being spread broadeast. The chamber passed a motion drawing the attention of the fiovernmint to the. menace and demanding immediate action. TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. AVunganui. May 25. The treatment of prisoners and the New '/"Mlfliwl nriHon system generally were the subjects of interesting remarks by Sir Holier: Stout in addressing the grand, jury in the Supreme Court today. Referring to the recommendation by an Auckland jury that flogging be administered to those guilty of sexual offences. Sir Robert Stout i-aid lie considered Hogging :' brutiiiising method, Qnly suitable for brutal types. The responsibility did not rest with the. judges, but on the juries, who rJiould be careful in the administration of justice to see that feelings of mercy did not influence tl'ftii t" aemiit where the evidence was clear. If they sternly, but humanely. wunid tarry out their duties, crime would decline in their district. Jurymen had to see that the law wan carefully and humanely administered, as thereby crime would decline. If possible, they must get people to realise that prison was not a place of"honor, but an ethical hospital; then they would realise the task before therm in trying to reduce crime.