Legislation A system of registration under which every person "on the road" would have an identification card bearing his photograph was among a number of proposals made by Sir Arnold Wilson M.P., when he opened a discussion on a national policy for vagrancy at the annual conference of the Central Association of Young Wayfarers' Hostels, at Kings College Theological Hall, London, S.W.
His other proposals were the granting of powers to some local or cen-ital authority to detain casual poor persons who refused to undergo training for employment; similar powers for the detention of casual poor persons who were by age, mental or physical defects or for other reasons incapable of finding work for themselves or of benefiting from any form of training, and who were wandering to their own hurt; ihe establishment of two experimental labour colonies under the Prison Commissioners; and that voluntary hostels should be tried in
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