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fordship that the questions connected with the discipline and dietary of Victoria Gaol, Wonglung I have at length been satisfactorily settled, and firm, I trust, on a basis which will eventually result in a material decrease in its inmates.
The long delay which has taken place not only in the preparation of the report, but in the final adoption of the regulations & dietary scale has been due to the thorough and exhaustive manner in which the Commission prosecuted its enquiries in the first instance, and to the desire with which the Executive Council was animated to allow every variety of opinion in matters of detail to be thoroughly ventilated and weighed before finally reducing to a system the suggestions recommended by individual members of the Commission.
With these remarks I will leave the Report of the Commission together with the Evidence taken by it, and the new Scale of Dietary finally adopted by the Executive Council in Your Lordship's hands.
And I have the honour to be, My Lord,