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Show I Treatment of Habitual T!rimlnrfs. The Now Zealand minister for Jus lift" has Introduced tho habitual crlrn htjils and offenders 'bill, wlilch pro' vldes that where a person Iiub heeii twlco convicted of a criminal assault or four times of wounding, robbery or burglary, he may be regarded jib ,nn habitual criminal And at the oxplra-tlon oxplra-tlon of his sentence detained ilu ,u re formatory. After six convictions fur vagrancy ia man may bo treated in the samo way. Discharge from the reformatory will bo secured only on the recommendation recommenda-tion of tho court, while tho detained offenders will bo mado to work and wages will bo placed to their rrefllt or toward the siipjtorliof their (depend |