DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER
MISGUIDED ABOLITION DEPLORED “I cannot help referring to the misguided abolition of the death penalty and corporal punishment in New Zealand,” said the Mayor of Wairoa, Mr. H. L. Harker, in expressing the sympathy of the Wairoa district with the relatives of the victims of the Salvation Army Hall murders. “Murderers now have little or nothing to fear.” The Mayor, who was speaking at a meeting of the Borough Council, then moved: “That, pending the passing of legislation authorising the death penalty for murder, the Government be called on to provide adequate protection for the wives and mothers of those absent from home in the service of their country and of those persons whose age and state of health make them particularly vulnerable to attacks by human beasts.” The motion was carried unanimously.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 203, 29 August 1942, Page 4
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137DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 203, 29 August 1942, Page 4
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