CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12] — Page 382

I : I established - The spirited one tiny retained to satisfy the needs of the Colony per contra. I think there can be no question that the location of Prisons in the present site, as required by the Colonial Authorities, is wholly indefensible on Sanitary Grounds and also not the less on grounds of discipline. All their works involve some increase of the Establishment of Prison Officials.

E-4-78 I enter upon another want of space in the site of the present gaol being insurmountable. Objection to carrying out the separate system for Prisoners at that spot. I intended my No. 9671 to indicate this view.

all the minute The new gaol seems to encircle the town: when this is mainly spare, I fear, & I fancy there comes 2 difficulty, in finding a site to the Eastward when land is less in request than to the West. The New Building would probably be best suited for what sentinel prisoners - long sentenced men might be accommodated on the present site.

In any such things will in a heavy outlay & we shall have to consider whether the Govt may not allow some Stone Breaks. The Gambling Fund, an outlay from the & to repay by annual instalments, Revenue.

In writing to the Governor on should be plain that in rejecting Mr Price's plans, the S. of State expects that he has complied with the instructions Despatch of of March: but it is evident. That this site is not continuous to admit of a thoroughly satisfactory Prison being built there for all the Prisoners, & it is therefore better to divide them & obtain ample space for the yard & other appurtenances which are now restricted for the existing gaol Buildings.

He shall also be told that the works must be designed within regard to the probability of Transporting Prisoners to Labuan.

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