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THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1931.
PRISONS OF THE COLONY
business has increased and they are gradually ousting the British manufacturers from the China market. It is facts such these
ay which have to be faced squarely if Pritain is to recapture her place in the Eastern markets, for to good can be achieved by standing still and mumbling about "peaceful conditions" and led into prison during the year and part in the strike.
the corresponding number for 1920* "world depression.""
were as follows:
Number of Convicts Shows Increase.
News in Brief.
OVERCROWDING BOGEY.
The number of prisoners receiv
1929,
1930.
Convicted by Ordinary
Courts
4,778
5,024
Convicted by High
Court, Wei-hai-wei.
Debtors
7 66:
One Chinese case of diphtheria Ori romand or in de-
foult of was notified yesterday.
finding ..aurety
Lance-Sergeant Nolan returned from Home leave. on the P. & 0. 8.8. Rajputana to-day,
Total
The female prisoners took no
Laichikok Prison. Garden work continues to giva useful employment. Other work done at Lalchlkok apart from the necessary upkeep, duties of cook ing, cleaning, etc., are string, and netmaking, basket and broom 73 making and grass mat-making During the year coir mat-making was successfully added to this list. Prisoner No. 8225 escaped on June 2, 1990. He has not been 5,779 6,493 recaptured.
933
796
General.
There was A decrease in the The conduct of prisonera gen- number of prisoners convicted for erally was very good. larceny during the year under re- number being 1,287 from against 1,410 for the previous 59 per cent. of the total admis sions to prison were Revenue
Quarantine, restrictions have been view the imposed against arrivals Pakhal on account of plague.
year.
An unknown Chinese, who was a Grade prisoners.
44 boys were admitted 19 patient in the Tung Wah Hospital, committed suicide yesterday by cut-Juveniles, I.e. under 16 years of ting his throat with a pen-knife. age, during the year, with sen- tences varying from 48 hours de Hia age is stated to be about 50.
tention to 12 months' hard labour, were treated "as
Senders of telegrams are inform-but only 19 ed that, owing to one faulty cable Juvenile Offenders: the others in between Hong Kong and Shanghai,, the opinions of the Superintendent telegrams to and from Shanghai, and Medical Officer being over 16 and beyond may be subject to slight years of age. In 3 cases corporal punishment was awarded by courts delay.
In addition to sentences of impri-
Bonment.
388 punishments were awarded for breaches of prison disciplina as compared with 498 for the pre- ceding year. Corporal punish- ment was inflicted in twenty-fivo cases for prison offences.
One handred and sixty-six (166) prisoners were whipped by order of courts.
There were 16 deaths (14 na- tural causes and 2 executions).
The conduct of the staff, with some exceptions, was very good.
The general health of the staff was good.
Existing fire appliances are in good conditions.
The rules laid down for the Gov- ernment of Prisons were complied with.
"Ministry of Interior"
Found at the junction of Shang- The percentage of convicted pri- hai. Street and Nelson Street, soners admitted to prison with Mongkok, after having fallen from previous convictions recorded the second floor of 554 Shanghai against them was 22.8 as compared to enquire into the diet for Street, the body of Yeung Ng-shung, ed with 28.8 for 1929. (50), a widow, was conveyed to the Kowloon Mortuary.
A Food Committee was appoint."
prisoners and a temporary improv. ed scale of diets was approved as from December 7 pending further consideration of the matter,
disorder in China. Although for
260 prisoners were convicted by mally established, and inter-
Police Courts in the New Terri
nationally
tories, against 126 for the previous recognised, the
[year.
With reference to the Secretary Nationalist Government has Li Hoo-chi (15), an apprentice
10 Years' Figures. of State despatch of November 12. much to accomplish before it plumber, of 44 D'Aguilar Street, The following table shows the 1930, enclosing a copy of the re- secures that state of control was taken to the Government Civil number of convicts in custody on solution of the Colonial Office Com which is essential for the stabili-Hospital yesterday suffering from December 31 for the past 10 years, ference in regard to Prison Ad internal Injuries caused by a and the percentage of the total ministration and Prison Services ty of trade. It is sincerely to be cidentally falling from the third number of prisoners in custody to and drawing attention to comments hoped that there will be no fur-floor to the accond floor of 15, Peak the estimated population of Hong, in the Committee's report. the ther outbreak of civil war.
Road whilst at work there..
Percent Daily Percent age of average age of No. of popular No. of popula convicts tion prisonera tion
231 .035 764 .115
.089 250*
861 .128
787119
Kong:-
"Meanwhile, as concerns the
Whilst playing on the roof of past year, the political state of
868 Nathan Road with other boys, China has not been the only faca student, Leung Kai-yee (20), of 1921 tor accounting for our lack of 428 Shanghai Street, accidentally 1022 1023 trade. The phenomenal drop in fell over the ledge into Mau Lam
1024 Street and was seriously Injured. 1925 exchange rendered business al-He was taken to the Kowloon Hos-1026 most impossible. Thus, the pital, where he died shortly after 1927 heavy decline in cotton values, admission. which would normally have been!
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204
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345
0431 1,086
193
394
.045 1.110 .128
... 409
.052 1,054
1928
1929
.134
2014 1,180 .136 352 .033 1,071 .100 331 .031 1,075 .100
1930... 286
.022 1,175 .103 Victoria Gaol (Male Prison).
14,091,585 forms were printed
of great beneft, has occurred al-Kong Chi-sun, aged 23, of 57, Aberdeen Street, Hong Kong, was most without advantage to buy-drowned whilst bathing with friends and issued to various Government ers in China.
"Competition from Japan con tinues to be an important feature. Our Eastern competitor has, like ourselves, been seriously affected
at Lalchikok yesterday. He was Departments and 77,701 books apparently not a strong swimmer, bound or repaired, as compared and got out of his depth, all efforts with 15,511,413 forms and 101,884 books in 1929. During the year at rescue being in vain. Up to a late hour last night the body had not, type to the value of $2,500 was been recovered. ::
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cast..
sary which added to the congestion In the Yards, and industrial work suffered in consequence.
A Linotype machine was instal- Hong Kong, Thursday, July 16, 1991. by the Chinese domestic situa
led in October and is a most use tion, but has none the less con- Shortly before noon to-day, ful addition to the equipment of tinued to play a dominant part. crippled Chinese was knocked down the Printing Department. The year has shown that the ac- Central Theatre,
by a P.W.D. lorry outside the Owing to the demolition of the Queen's Road Printing Shop which was consider tivities of mills in China play an West. He was trying to cross the ed ansafe, a temporary shop was ever-increasing part in the trade thoroughfare when the accident erected in one of the Yards. This happened... Ho was severely in-transfer and the strike referred to situation.
jared, and an ambulance conveyed in paragraph 15 caused a falling "Given peaceful conditions in him to hospital.. This phrase, in regard to the
off in the output for the year. foreign. Powers and China, is China and a recovery in the
Other work done In the Prison. getting a little tiresome. British price of silver, our trade there Mr. T. E. Wilson, of the Dollar Included matmaking, tailoring, car- trade, we are told again and should definitely revive. On the Line, asks us to contradict the pentering, tinsmithing, painting, again, "should definitely revive, whole, the general situation report in our last issue that he was laundering, shoe-making, soap- the gentleman involved in the car making, net-making and basket- given peaceful conditions in affecting the China market show-v. ríkishis smash in Queen's Road making in addition to the neces China and a recovery in the price ed improvement towards the East yesterday. Inadvertently sary upkeep work of cooking, clean- of silver." It is now to be as close of the year."
the wrong initials were supplied ing and minor building repairs. to our reporter. We sincerely In consequence of the removal. sociated with the other hackney- The report shows a fundamen- regret that Mr. T. B. Wilson has of the Printing Department re- éd terms with which sharehold-tal misunderstanding of the been the victim of an unfortunate arrangement of parties was neces ers have to be satisfied; like the Chinese political situation, but error. cliche "world depression," it has this is so often the case with no longer any meaning for people manufacturers and business men In the Summary Court yesterday, who are really well-informed on at Home that we who live out for $17.50 in favour of a Chinese ed and until a new prison is built
Mr. Justice Lindsell gave judgment Just So!
The Gaol was again overcrowd- world affairs.
East have long since ceased to tallor who claimed $59.50, wager for it is likely to continue to be over- - The last to hold out this mar be surprised. What manufac work done, from Madame Chiffon. crowded.
a European warder rowless
bone of Illusive optim turers at Home fail to realise is Defendant successfully pleaded. In August
that she had made an advance of $20 was stabbed and severely wound- ism are the Board of Directors of that the loss of trade which Great on the work. She also claimed ed by a prisoner undergoing a sen the Manchester Chamber of Com Britain has sustained in the East that he had apolled a dress, which tence of 12 months. The prisoner His was tried at the Supreme Court merce, through the Chairman of is not due so much to conditions had cost $16 to replace. the China and Far East Section, as to lack of enterprise. They Lordship deducted these Items from and sentenced to seven years'
hard: labour, Mr. W. Maxwell Renkle, O.B.E. are reluctant to advertise, and The report commences by giving they take few steps to establish comparative figures of exports of trading connections other than cotton piece goods to the Far to send a represe tive out once East, which were 61.4 last year a year or to appoint agents compared with 108.8 in 1927, and whom they immediately proceed then continues --
to neglect. For example, the chine
is still passing local agent of a famous, British through times of great stress. light motor car has to pay his It has always been assumed that own advertising costs and is re- that the Konalist: ernment, which took over
aced would be
Bloma:
ntrol in 1928, might
the claim.
Veteran Journalist
Takes His Life.
A generál strike, of convicted prisoners occurred on December PRESS SENSATION. 16. Labour was resumed general-
ly on December 24" A special: Committee of unofficials was ap pointed to act with the Superin- [tendent of Prisons in dealing with five zarious cases of insubordiną. tion arising out of the strike, Tha remainder of the strikers were | dealt with by the Superintendent | under his own powerɑ mo
Two prisoners escaped on Octo ber 9. They were recapt
Victoria Gaoly(
THREATENED WIFE
assistance
to increase his even been advised
New York, Yesterday'
sircles have experi
This prison was
In the suicide ed. The ground for a-nay editorial writ-prison is being prepared amil TelegramDuring the year the ho in 1868 was party of British
ko,sident, ladies continued:
Prison to Ins
sewing rafi
elem
dson);
Superintendent states that (1) The Police and Prison Depart. ments in this Colony are kept separate as recommended by the Committee,
CASCH
(2) There is no Discharged Fri
soners Aid Society in this Colony. Such an institution might do useful work in as-- sisting recommended after discharge. (3) Given better accommodation educational classes could be held and lectures given but until it is possible to segregatu the different classes and to separate the hopeful caseş from the habitual, the pros. -pect of reforming the criminal
in prison is remote.
Schemes in the Air. Schemes are under consideration for the building of a new prison. Until that institution is occupied little.or nothing can be done effos- tively to separate the different classes. (4) Except in a few cases where unproductive labour is used as a deterrent, every convicted prisoner in Hong Kong is now employed on some form of useful work. Many develop into good tailors, carpenters, mat-makers and printers and facilities bet- with better terworking results would -be obtained. Fifteen years. Rgo the majority turned the handles of machines
· known as, "cranks," or.carried shot and stone, both forms of labour producing no result except perhaps the develop ment of certain muscles and
•' dull discontent...
(5) This Colony's criminal popula- tion la peculiar inasmuch as 94 per cont. of the prisoners convicted are not British born and 28 per cent, are banished for periods varying from 5 years to life after completing. their sentences in prison. It is doubtful whether any sys- tem of educational or vocaƒ tional training' would have much value in these cases: The only way to judge would by the numbers of (Continued on Page 7.)
.be
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "China" Mail of July 16, 1921.3
To-day's dollar is worth 2/6.
A visitor to the Colony, "Mr. C. C Quackenbush, staying at the Hong, Kong Hotel who rashly went out side the beaten track and ventured Into Chinese, districts that he did not Imow, reports a most unpleasant experience which occurred to him at ten o'clock last night.
Quackenbush stated that he
dering
ther he should
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