CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8] — Page 495

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Police Force, who are in a position to offer security, and who would receive sufficient salaries, fair play and reasonable instruction in their new duties, would be calculated to give a high degree of satisfaction as prison turnkeys.

to draw Your Lordship's attention to the last two sentences in his report :-

"I would only add that, apart from the great and obvious consideration of language, where the advantage lies with the Chinese over all other competitors likely to seek the lower offices in the Gaol, the former are in my opinion, owing to their sober-mindedness, docility, and sense of responsibility better fitted for the work than the latter.

"Neither in the previous characters, habits, or discipline of mind of this class of Foreigners, can, in my opinion, be found sufficient guarantees for that fair dealing towards prisoners which should form so important a factor in the good management of a prison; and further, looking to the natural tastes of such men, their social environments and the effects of climate, they are subject to temptations quite as deleterious in degree, if different in kind, as those

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Gol T 1 9 430 Police Force, who are in a position to offer security, and who would receive sufficient salaries, fair play and reasonable instruction in their new duties, would be calculated to give a high degree of satisfaction as prison turnkeys. to draw Your Lordship's attention to the last two sentences in his report :- "I would only add that, apart from the great and obvious consideration of language, where the advantage lies with the Chinese over all other competitors likely to seek the lower offices in the Gaol, the former are in my opinion, owing to their sober-mindedness, docility, and sense of responsibility better fitted for the work than the latter. "Neither in the previous characters, habits, or discipline of mind of this class of Foreigners, can, in my opinion, be found sufficient guarantees for that fair dealing towards prisoners which should form so important a factor in the good management of a prison; and further, looking to the natural tastes of such men, their social environments and the effects of climate, they are subject to temptations quite as deleterious in degree, if different in kind, as those

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Gol

430

Police Force, who are in a position to offer seewrity, and who would receive sufficient salaries, fair

play

and reasonable instruction

in their new.

ducties, would be

calculated to give a high degree of satisfaction as prison turnkeys.

to draw

Your

I veniture specially Lordship's attention to the last two sentences in his report :-

"I would only add that, apart

great and obvious

from the

"consideration of language, where in "the advantage lies with the Chinese

" over all other competitors likely to ....

seek the lower offices in the Gaol,

the former

are in

my opinion, owing

"to their sobermindedne, docility....

"and sense.

of responsibility better

fitted for the work than the latter.

"Neither in the previous characters,

" habits, or discipline of mind of __

this class of " Forsigners,

QAR

"my opinion, to be found sufficient " guarantees for that fair dealing

"towards prisoners which should: form so important a factor in the "good management of a prison:... " and further, looking to the natural

" tastes of such men, their social___

environments and the effects of.. " climate, they are subject to

"temptations quite

as deleterious in

degree, if different in Kind, as those

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