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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4319, 14 January 1893, Page 2

A discharged prisoner, writing to an English piper, remarks;—" 1 should like to say in conclusion, that 1 consider our judges and magistrates are continually makmghabitual criminalsbygiyins i long terms of imprisonment in cases of first offences, I had a much greater horror of prison lifo at the end of my first two months than at the end of the two years. 1 also consider that under no oiroumßtances should prisoners uu™ dergoing their first term be allowed to associate with those who have previously convicted, This is, in my mind, a great source of prisoners becoming ' habitual criminals, 1 " Here is another endorsement of tho principles of our First Offenders' Probation Act, A good story is going the round of the town just now coucormng a hat of a particular description, wluoh was wanted by one of our local magnates, He tried everywhere in searoh of it, and found it at most places; there was no difficulty about that, But the prioes, Ob Fie I nine shillings at one shop, eight at another, seven and six at a third, and a crown somewhere else. Thou Hooper' and Company's was reached, and soon tho soekor went home delighted, singing 'ThatHat, That Hat, that wonderful Hat; I got it at Hoopor's for two aurj 9, eppat,"—Apvt '