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to undertake the plan of the new
Gaol
(Central School without
and the new
delay.
I also offered
to increase Mr.
Price's staff if he felt it essential for
5.
Mr. Price put
the work of preparing
those plans.
me the plan of a
a new
Gaol on
before
In July this year
separate system to be built on ...
the se
Stone Cutter's Island, that being
the alternative
projects
that I
one
was
of
disposed to support. I at once told him
I should like to submit an
alternative
a memo
plan to Your Lordship, of a Gaol on the Island of Konghong, and
that he is now
6.
I
doing
may
mention that.
pending the consideration of the project
of a properly constructed Gaol of adequate
size
long
I sanctioned the conversion
of the
six
basement halls of the present small and defective Gaol into forty cells on the separate system. These
cells have been used since December
1878. Mr. Jonnoshy, the highly efficient Superintendent, in his report of 8th of March 1880 speaks favourably of this temporary expedient.
7.
Now that the Praya Works
... have been finished, I hope, before
very long, to be able to lay before Your Lordship plans
for
a
new
Gaol on
the alternative
sites of Stone Cutters Island and the island of Honghong