PRISONERS PRIVILEGES.
The prisoners in the gnois of New Zealand, although they have not the advantage of a newspaper of their own, possess privileges which are not extended in other parts of the world. A few years back, through the kind offices of Mr Edwin Arnold, the Visiting Justice to Wellington Terrace Gaol, the late Mr Seddon was prevailed upon to make the prisoners an allowance of tobacco. The effect upon discipline was remarkable. The prisoners, it was found, would do anything rather than lose their supply of tobacco, and so a reform in the habits and emiducfc of the gaol occupants was effected. Mr Arnold tells some interesting stories of how prisoners have pleaded with him to spare -them their supply of tobacco. In the old days, of course, gaol life was more congenial than at present, if the narratives of old-timers are to be relied upon. But those days have nassed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10712, 2 October 1912, Page 4
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153PRISONERS PRIVILEGES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10712, 2 October 1912, Page 4
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