HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wednesday. CENTRAL PENAL ESTABLISHMENT.
Mr- ifurrav moved, ' That in-tlie opinion of tliii House tenders should not bo accepted fer a Ceiilnl ga>l at Jfow Plyuuiifh till the House liad had an o,>pjrtuiuij of recon lido, ing the , question of I lie site fjr v, central pjiml -esUbluhincut. 1 ' A lon.j .dHPimiou ensued upon tlic m ian. Hjssis D Rjad, W Wo id, B vVoo 1, Rjes, an I ivhjM suppctel thj motion, B[> likiii^jit co.isiderublo length to«li>ur th.it ia.'.m«ti:i hail ho right to the sprdil uilvau iigei of so Itirgii an eipanditu v; tint any other part ot the colony b»< l mi eo,utl clutin ; tint it w-t'.q uotao-utrul site; that jt< had not bei'ii shown th^t it was tho moit c-uiiable for the pmpojt! ; that it wm improper for tho iioiise to s tnclion without further con silie ulioti aasoxpeuditurti that id one c mid ccc th • end of, tn the- only work b^ide* builoi lg pirt, of' a prison on whic'i to eii!;jloy piison labour was tho construe* urn of a breik water, an 1 (bat ould not ■ possibly be co isti'iic c I f >r m.mr yjar?. It Wtis iiigcil on the othen 1-j.ncL, tint the question had been amply dismissed, huvui(» been bef jre tlu House since lSf>6. They must have a* central prison 101113wbere, or »lac igorcso the ace unmoaation of all the o>h<r prisons, which w.u aa Iroad as lb wai loujj. This wa« n, question 'o: tiuloni.il iHterest. It not oily would o ial>le them to arrange & gy»toui of claosilitiatioti: amongst .prisoner.'), but the con->trur(i m of a breakwater uud htrbonr>cf refuse ou.thnt long atretc'i of o>a3t would be tlie.ir.eans of nm<iu{ the largo area of (ertdo lind<. of *T,ir ihaki to be settledcwitli a pcpula'km tint would largely sh»re in boanng the burdens of ihe eclouy. It wu pinpt^ed I hit the, dobat' be .tdjiurnoil, and the adjournment Hi) carried bjr ikj c^tttiujr rote of th. Speaker.
POSTIL C.UID3. 1 In re.ilr hi a qijuattdii Jbr Mr- Stf»m:« It w^s nitim ifcd th-it the >ard cystem would shortly be lutroduced into tlio colorfiy.
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 654, 29 July 1876, Page 2
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354HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wednesday. CENTRAL PENAL ESTABLISHMENT. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 654, 29 July 1876, Page 2
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