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# VICTORIA GAOL (MALE PRISON).
6. 14,929,770 forms were printed and issued to various Government departments and 82,210 books bound or repaired, as compared with 14,091,535 forms and 77,701 books in 1930. During the year type to the value of $2,300.00 was cast.
7. Other industries in the Prison included matmaking, tailoring, carpentering, tinsmithing, painting, laundering, shoemaking, netmaking and basketmaking; and the necessary upkeep work of cooking, cleaning and minor building repairs.
8. The new Printing Shop was opened in July and gave a much needed, but still insufficient, increase of workshop accommodation.
9. The Gaol was again overcrowded.
10. Two prisoners escaped on 13th August. They were recaptured. Prisoner 169 in attempting to escape on 16th April fell from the roof of E Hall and was killed.
# VICTORIA GAOL (FEMALE PRISON).
11. This prison was also again overcrowded. The new female prison at Lai Chi Kok is however nearing completion and will be occupied before the summer of 1932.
12. During the year English and Chinese resident ladies continued to visit the Prison to instruct the women in sewing, raffia work, &c., and to give them elementary education. The prisoners are attentive and the results gratifying. The visiting ladies' voluntary and willing work is greatly appreciated by the administration.
# LAI CHI KOK PRISON.
13. Garden work continues to give useful employment. Other work done at Lai Chi Kok, apart from the necessary routine duties of cooking, cleaning, etc. included string and net making, basket and broom making and grass mat making. Coir matmaking was successfully introduced in 1930 and the bulk of this work is now done at Lai Chi Kok.
# GENERAL.
14. 907 punishments were awarded for breaches of prison discipline as compared with 388 for the preceding year. Corporal punishment was inflicted in forty-seven cases for prison offences,
15. Fifty-eight prisoners were whipped by order of courts,