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Return showing the Employment of Prisoners and the Value of their Labour, during the year 1934,

Rate

Daily Average Number of Prisoners.

Description of Employment.

per diem.

Value of Prison Labour.

Mules.

Females.

Total.

·

AL

C.

C.

Sundays, Christmas Day, Good Friday and

Chinese New Year Day:

Cooking,

Cleaning.......

Non-productive,

Total,

40

34

14

48

40

43

TO

53

1,286.40 1,420.40

1.383

1.53

1,536

1,400

177

1,637

Other Days :-

Debtors, Remands, On punishment, Sirk................

110

119

In Manufactories :-

Book-binding,

Printing,

40

Oakum-picking,

Coir-matting,

Shoe-making,

30

#l

40

Tailoring.

Weaving..

Gardening,

Net-making, String-making, and Ships'

fender-making,

Tinsmithing,

40

fu Building :-

Carpentering and Fiting.

In Service of the Prison :—

Laundry,

Cooking.

Cleaning.................

Whitewashing,

28866999 8 8 9 9988

10

90

X

ON

11,720.80

72

72

8,611.20

353

3.13

31.664.10

71

74

8,850,40

18

18

2.152.80

40

37

30

67

8,013.20

40

X

4

12

1,435.20

40

14

14

1,674.40

30

3*4

381

31,444.80

+3

23

2,750.80

40

26

26

3,109.60

JO

40

40

40

****

97

86

183

21,886.80

34

14

18

5,740.80

13

10

53

6,338,80

12

5

47

5,621.20

Total,

1,425

166

1,591

156,721.70

Return showing the Basis upon which the Value of Earnings of Prisoners is calculated."

In Manufactories :—

Rate.

Book-binding,

Printing,

40 cents por diem.

40

Husk-beating,

Oakum-picking,

40

+

30

11

Coir-making,

40

*

Shop-making,

40

Tailoring,

40

11

Weaving,

40

11

Net-making, string and fender-making,

30

1J

In Building

:

Bricklaying.

Carpentering and Fitting,

40

40

ปี

40

1

Painting,

In Service, of the Prison :-

Laundry,

Cooking,

Clearing,

Whitewashing,

40

40

9999

11

40

+

10

40

--

•No charge is made for prison labour for official work done for other Government Departinents.

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