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Kussell) were on the Bench, they
frequently
sent juvenile offenders
to this Reformatory, with the
very
best results. eft present, and for
some years
back, the Magistrates
years back, the
have not taken advantage of the
school, chiefly because the
Director has no
legal powers of detention. It seems to me that
this should be granted him by
Ordinance, but in
any.
case
think the Magistrates should be recommended to send boys there, at all events for first.
Offences
offences instead of committing
them to prison.
When a similar
6.
proposal
wad
being considered the religions
some
years ago,
difficulty
Ivas
arose, and the matter. consequently allowed to drop,
but it really seems to me that until this Colony is prepared to
build an Industrial School, and,
if necessary, a Reformatory School
short-sighted
also, it is a
a very
policy to refuse to reform juvenile
offenders because they may
at
the