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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