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your predecessor, in his despatch 11:15% of the 19th June, wrote as

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follows:

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I observe with concern

the large number of juveniles

sent to prison, and should be

glad if most of these cases -

could be disposed of otherwise than by confining the offenders in the common. Gaol. Meanwhile, "I assume that

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every effort

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which has

by

my

no means

attention, as may

escaped

be seen

by the

Enclosure enclosed correspondence with the

3rd July to 11th August, 1885.

Superintendent of the gaol, the Police Magistrates, and Bishop Raimondi.

3.

And

even

before this

correspondence commenced, it was evident to me that nothing is

very

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is

made to keep children wholly apart from adult criminals?"

Now this is a subject

which

as

urgently needed in this Colony Government Industrial Schools and Reformatory schools, which

should be established without

unnecessary delay. No better work

could