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the misconduct of the Turnkeys in the Hong Kong Gaol, and in reply to his suggestion that Turnkeys salaries of £100 a year each, might be obtained from England.
Your Lordship points out the objections to this plan, and instructs me to consider the expediency of getting two trained Warders from the Home service, at salaries of £150 a year each, with strict European supervision.
I am enabled to reply to Your Lordship's Despatch without delay, as I had already obtained and considered the necessary information on the subject, and decided, as a provisional measure, on the very course Your Lordship indicates.
From the enclosed copies of letters from the Acting Superintendent of the Prison recommending the dismissal of certain European Turnkeys who had been guilty of drunkenness in the Gaol and beating prisoners, and my agreeing to this recommendation and dismissing another Turnkey who...
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the misconduct of the Turnkeys in the Honghong Gaol, and in reply to his
suggestion that Turnkeys.
salaries of £100
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year
to receive
each, might
be obtained from England.
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out the
Your Lordship points
objections to this plan, and
instructs me to consider the
:expediency of getting twe trained...
Warders from the Home service,
salaries of £150 a
year
strict European supervision.
I am enabled to reply
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to
Your Lordship's Despatch without
I had already obtained and
delay,
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considered the necessary information
on the subject, and decided, as
provisional
measure on-
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course Your Lordship indicates .
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drunkenness in the Gaor and
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and beating
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to this recommendation and
dismissing
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another Turnkey who -
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