Offenders are specially exempted from hard labour, though not from any other form of labour as defined by Rule 257 (No 1 Labour). The crank formerly employed in the Prisons of this Country was regarded as the most detestable form of Penal Labour. I assume, however, that the Hongkong crank is of a different pattern.
17. After Rule 274 the following new Rule should be inserted: «Junior ... Catmen shall hard labour &c low diet be combined.»
214 I do not overlook the fact that provision to the above effect is already made in the appendices to the Rules; but the matter is one of considerable importance, & it therefore appears to me desirable that the provision should be explicitly laid down in the Rules.
18. I see no reason why matters of importance to prisoners should not be communicated to them by ...