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Extract from letter to Sir Samuel Wilson
from Sir William Peel, dated
26th May, 1931.
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I am awaiting the despatch regarding the
loan, but I trust that you will agree to our paying
for the Gaol out of loan. I appreciate of course
that loans are rather for reproductive under-
takings, but after all the Gaol will last from
fifty to a hundred years, and I believe that the
sinking fund will repay the loan in 28 years; SO
it seems rather inequitable to ask the present
generation to pay out sane two millions a year out
of revenue for 2 years for the work, at the
expense probably of a good deal else that is needed
We cannot really afford to defer the Gaol, as the
present institution is an absolute scandal, and I
should be entirely unable to defend the Colony if
its shortcomings were attacked from outside. We
had some trouble there a few months ago, and I can
only express surprise that there has not been a
good deal more, for it is impossible to run the
place satisfactorily, as it is at present.
However, this will be the subject of a despatch in
due course.
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