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few months before be left Boussons) had good reason, in the absence of
any ther cause
increase
for counceling the Crime in the Colony
with the cheap gares from Canton. His Lordship however was good enough to add "It is true howeve
tant
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as
pointed out in your Ferrata
143 of 222 June 1877 the increasing
number of recommittals and
may be to
convictions generally mar come extent accounted for by defects especially
in the prison system as
by the fact of the discipline of the Gool not being sufficiently severe
to act as
a.
deterrent "
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2.
Next to the serious soirs of
the apociated system, one of the
gravert defects I found
Houghtons Gaol
I
in the
was the excepive amouné
food given to the Chinese prisoners. "The enclosed extracês from Minutes
ņ
various Meetings of
Council contain
aná proceedings
the Executive
a record of my views
this important
question of irison dietary not beine
in my opinion sufficiently deterrent.
3.
The
Regulations on this entject ofthe garl Commision that und been presided over by Sr. Snowden
had been adopted and promulgated
a
short time before my arrival,