NEW PRISON CAMP.
LAND By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, March 25. The Prisons Department has acquired 10,000 acres on the shores of Lake Taupo for tne purpose of establishing a new prison farm, a few miles from the township of Tokaanu. The land is chiefly pumice country, but includes a considerable area of bush, and is flat to undulating. The Hon. E. P. Lee stated that by means of prison labor the land would be prepared for settlement. The intention of the Prisons Department was to develop the land block by block, moving the temporary huts and buildings forward as the development proceeds. Some huts are already up, and when the camp has been fully established* more prisoners will be drafted there, and the work will go on steadily.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1922, Page 3
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128NEW PRISON CAMP. Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1922, Page 3
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