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officers at home. I understand
that County Gaol warders
would more readily of
offer
themselves than Convict Prison officers, and I would therefore suggest that if the
latter are not obtainable candi
case it
dates might be selected from the former. In any is highly desirable that the
men selected should have
had some
previous training
in a gaol and experience of prison discipline.
7.
7.
It has occurred to me
in reference to a previous
mr
passage in this despatch that whilst considering M. Lethbridges recommendations Your Lordship might also be disposed to con_ sider the practicability, in view of the prospective amalgamation of the Police and Gaol Depart- ments, of assimilating the terms and conditions of service in the latter to those in force in the former, and of eventually equalising the rates of pay in
the
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