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growing rapidly: and the average number of pigs slaughtered
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there has risen from 12.5 per day in 1906 to 19.4 in 1908.
The total numbers are 4,547 for 1906 and 7,094 for 1908.
A further increase may reasonably be expected in 1909 as
the new houses for the Taikoo Docks are being completed
and occupied. This will be a remunerative work as the
probable income for 7,094 pigs at an average cost of 30
cents each would be $2,128 per annum. The Director of
Public Works estimates the cost of building at $8,500.
(c). Prison Extension: $18,000. On the
16th. March last the Assistant Superintendent of Victoria
Gaol reported that the prison was overcrowded, and on the
30th. idem the Principal Civil Medical Officer reported
that there is accommodation in the prison without over-
-crowding for 522 prisoners only. In the following month
Mr. R. H. A. Craig put forward a suggestion to pull down
the offices and some of the stores in the Gaol and erect a
new hall of 78 cells on the ground so made available.
Plenty of space would still remain to re-erect such
offices as are necessary: and prison labour would be avail-
-able to do the work. The scheme was referred to the
Director of Public Works who approved of it and submitted
an estimate of $18,000 based on the assistance to be
afforded