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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

Thursday Afternoon

Thursday Afternoon.

The National Council met in the Provincial Council Chambers at 2:30 p.m. Mrs Schnackenberg in the chair. The following ladies answered to their names : Lady Stout, Mesdames Sheppard, Fleming, Sievwright, Tasker, Alley Izett, Hatton, Isherwood, Williams on, Schnackenberg, Miss Sherriff Bain, and the Secretary. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.

The resolutions tabled in the morning by Mrs Sievwright, were seconded by Mrs Alley, and carried.

Mr O'Bryen Hoare then addressed the meeting on " The Criminal." The discussion eventuated in the following resolution : (1). Proposed by Mrs Hatton, seconded by Miss Sherriff Bain," That in the opinion of this Council there is abundant evidence to show that our present treatment of criminals is not satisfactory, either as regards the criminal or society." Carried. (2). Proposed by Lady Stout, seconded by Mrs Tasker, and carried unanimously: "That no system can be satisfactory which does not distinguish and classify the different kinds of criminal, and aim at individual reform." (3). Proposed by Mrs Williamson, and seconded by Mrs Sievwright : " That in the opinion of this Council all sentences for serious offences should be indeterminate—i.e., decided as to duration by the reform of the criminal."—Carried by a majority of three. (4). Proposed by Mrs Isherwood, and seconded by Mrs Fleming, and carried unarimously : " That in the opinion of this Council capital punishment should be abolished."