CRIME IN BRITAIN.
QUESTION OF FINES.
BAD MORAL INFLUENCE
(Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.)
LONDON, October 8
The Right Hon. R. McKenna, in a speech, stated that out of 151,000 persons imprisoned eighty thousand were committed in default of paying fines. He added That short terms of imprisonment had a bad morar influence. A Bill would be introduced in 1914 giving time for payment, and authorising the payment of fines by instalments.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 October 1913, Page 5
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72CRIME IN BRITAIN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 October 1913, Page 5
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