VICTORIA GAOL (MALES).
6. 22,993,811 forms were printed and issued to various Government Departments and 122,901 books bound or repaired as compared with 18,576,579 forms and 88,677 books in 1932. During the year type to the value of $350 was cast.
7. Other industries in the Prison included matmaking, tailoring, carpentering, tinsmithing, painting, laundering, shoemaking, netmaking and basketmaking, and the usual upkeep work of cooking, cleaning and minor building repairs.
8. The Gaol was again overcrowded.
9. The workshop accommodation is inadequate.
LAI CHI KOK PRISON (MALES).
10. Garden work continues to give useful employment. Other work done at Lai Chi Kok, apart from the essential routine duties of cooking, cleaning, etc., included string and net making, basket and broom making and grass matmaking. Coir matmaking was successfully introduced in 1930 and the bulk of this work is now done at Lai Chi Kok.
11. There was no escape or attempt to escape.
12. Owing to a marked increase in prison population the building of a new Hall to accommodate if necessary 200 prisoners, was approved.
FEMALE PRISON LAI CHI KOK.
13. This prison was also overcrowded. Although it was constructed to accommodate 120, (about double the daily average in custody in the old Female Prison) the number in the New Prison has frequently been over 200.
14. Female prisoners are employed chiefly on laundry work and mending. Weaving was introduced in March and satisfactory results have been obtained, but for want of accommodation the work can only be done on a small scale.
15. The Lady Visitors continue to attend regularly for instructional purposes and their visits make a welcome and useful change to the monotony of imprisonment for the long sentence prisoners. Lady Sisters from the Italian Convent attend on Saturdays and Lady Visitors of the Church Missionary Society attend on Sundays to give religious addresses. Their ministrations are much appreciated. The administration would again like to express thanks to all these ladies for their valued services.
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