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Table IV.
Return showing the Employment of Prisoners and the Value of their Labour, during the year 1909.
Description of Employment Daily Average Number of Prisoners Rate per diem Value of Prison Labour Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday and Chinese New Year Day- Cooking.... 12 c. Cleaning, Non-productive. Males: 509, Females: 40, Total: 549 $10 Males: 28, Females: 1, Total: 29 $154 Males: 523, Females: 41, Total: 564 Other Days:-- Debtors, Remands, On punishment, Sick, Males: 43, Females: 0, Total: 43 Crank, Shot, Shot and Stone,... Males: 104, Females: 0, Total: 104 In Manufactories :- Bookbinding, Males: 40, Females: 0, Total: 40 20 c. $2,480.00 Printing,.. Males: 41, Females: 0, Total: 41 20 $2,728.00 Printing labourers, Males: 18, Females: 0, Total: 18 10 $55.00 Oakum picking, Males: 103, Females: 3, Total: 106 2 $657.20 Coir-matting, Males: 28, Females: 1, Total: 29 15 $1,302.00 Shoemaking, Males: 9, Females: 0, Total: 9 20 $55.00 Tailoring, Males: 19, Females: 2, Total: 21 15 $976.50 Net-making, string-making, & Males: 40, Females: 0, Total: 40 10 $1,240.00 In Building: ships' fender making, ...... Carpentering and Fitting, Males: 14, Females: 0, Total: 14 20 $868.00 In Service of the Prison :- Laundry, Males: 32, Females: 274, Total: 306 15 $1,906.50 Cooking, Males: 9, Females: 0, Total: 9 12 $334.30 Cleaning, Males: 27, Females: 1, Total: 28 10 $86.00 Whitewashing, Males: 15, Females: 0, Total: 15 10 $465.00 Total,.... Males: 545, Females: 15, Total: 560 $15,155.40