because wherever the sutra accommodation for prisoners is placed, Patrol Cordies must be engaged and the comparalored small sub-prison might be in charge of the present assistant superintendent of Chief warder, who would be the additional European office.
The modern cellular building at Suzafre home, Thelwall, being a success. As work of the frising perchinese and the climate is tropical, this prison would, I think, prove a better system for work in Hong Kong than an English prison. There is nothing to be learnt from Indian prisons we ought to avoid.
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M. Wingfield
MINUTE PAPER.
In the face of this strong opinion by Sir M., I think it is impossible for me to support the author scheme for altering the present prison as an alternative to building elsewhere. I supported it as a matter of expediency because it will beyond doubt be most acceptable to the local community, and it must be other scheme will be forced on them and that the Governor will not force it unless he is strongly ordered to do so.
I should be inclined to adopt Scheme 2, building a new block for say 200 or 250 prisoners avowedly as only an instalment of a whole prison. I would point out that this has already been suggested as the best way out of the difficulty, vide desp: no. GR of the 9th of June 1887 [10321/27] and would allude to the fact that a similar plan was adopted in Mauritius as Mr Heming will remember.
If a gradual plan of building is adopted...