remedies if they do not :
OUR NEW building was erected Only during the year, the Lodge at the Cemetery ; AVAS the Sier at the Harbour Master's wharf was finished, and the other Services undertaken were of general or miscellaneous character, the whole, however fully specified as before alluded to.
Tbeg again to refer to a circumstance alluded to in my last Report, vitz : that I feel confident would accrue to the Department both pecuniarily and otherwise if a paid blacksmith and carpenter were attached thereto; there is a considerable quantity of material in store from old buildings pulled down &c., and as I have twenty-three buildings under my charge, to repair wooden bridges and Convict tools, I am sure I could employ them in several ways, and effect a saving. Besides, tools in particular might be repaired until directly they require it instead of waiting - sufficient number are out of repair to enable me to estimate the sum requisite to put them all in order, and then obtain the necessary sanction from the Governor for the outlay, and so large an outlay would be avoided, a stock would not be required, and indeed this is becoming more apparent since the prisoners confined to hard labour within the jail have commenced to break stones for the roads; for if we had a blacksmith, in addition to his other works, he might take charge of their hammers and repair them daily, if need be, and so keep them in much better order than I can possibly do at present.
It would be an advantage if they were employed both in making basticts and soft rope, much of which I am obliged to use very occasionally, a great deal is...