543
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The number of prisoners in spite
Is
of
of these reductions is 710, including
Military
and 17 Naval prisoners.
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7.
e & very important
recommendation of the Committee
is that the diet should be
reduced. There is no doubt that
the diet is excessive, as there are some buckets full of leavings every day. As long as prisoners get better diet than free coolies, at the same time that they do less work, and none at all on
Saturday afternoons, which are
devoted to bathing and ablution,
Mor
Enclosure 2.
nor on
Sundays, whilst free men, paid
by the day, work every day, including
Sundays, the Gaol cannot have a deterrent effect. I was disposed to sanction the proposed reduction of diet at once,
but the Executive
Council thought it advisable that
the question should be referred home. The Superintendent of the
Gaol, in 1886, it will be seen, anticipates
trouble, and mutiny, and possible bloodshed, if such a radical change is introduced. We are quite ready
to
carry it out however, provided
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