VICTORIA GAOL (MALES).
5. 20,009,335 forms were printed and issued to various Government departments and 123,809 books bound or repaired as compared with 23,333,380 forms and 106,499 books in 1934. The decrease in the numbers of forms printed was largely due to economy effected by standardisation. During the year various items of printing, hitherto done by the Government Printers were undertaken and satisfactorily performed by the Prison Printery.
6. Other industries in the Prison included matmaking, tailoring, carpentering, tinsmithing, painting, laundering, shoemaking, netmaking and basketmaking. Prisoners were also employed on the usual routine upkeep work, including minor building repairs.
7. The Gaol was as usual overcrowded.
8. The workshop accommodation is inadequate.
9. There was no escape or attempt to escape.
10. There were 3 executions during the year.
LAI CHI KOK PRISON.
11. Garden work continued to give useful employment. Other work done at Lai Chi Kok, apart from the essential routine duties of cooking, cleaning, etc., included string and netmaking, coir matmaking, basket and broom making, and grass matmaking.
12. There was one escape on 14th August. The prisoner who escaped has not been recaptured.
FEMALE PRISON-LAI CHI KOK.
13. This prison was also overcrowded. Although constructed to accommodate 120 (about double the daily average in custody in the old Female Prison) the numbers in the new prison have frequently been as high as 200.
14. Female prisoners are employed chiefly on laundry work and mending. Other employment includes cooking, weaving, envelope making, and a little gardening.
15. Lady Visitors as hitherto attended regularly for instructional purposes. Sisters from the Italian Convent visited on Saturdays, and ladies of the Church Missionary Society on Sundays, to give religious addresses. The administration would again like to express thanks to all these ladies for their valued and gratuitous services.