CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5] — Page 115

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"The Committe find cause

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directed toward making the Gaol

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slace of rune effective sunishment

then it hitherts sums to have been:

The introduction of the separate system

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beyour all question calculated to

lare a most beneficial effect.

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Finally the Committee are

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"which cannot be but of great advantage

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to the public service "

11.

The important suggestion of the

Committee respecting the night duties

of

the Thee, entirely

agree with the

instructions I took the responsibility of

giving to Mr Deane, the Captain Superintendent, in September last, and

which

you have approved in duscited

1719 of the 11th of December 18-8.

conjecturing

glad to

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what might

be the

Causes

the increase

Crime

find that the friction between the Gaol.

aux Police Autritics which, in former

years, often formed a cubject of complaint,

las

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lisappeared, and that the two

departments work together in a manner

since 1874, the Committee express

that the insufficiently

the

Opinion

the Town at night.

guarded state of the Town at

"has probably had more to do with

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