CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10] — Page 159

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I alike with O Stewart have

experienced the difficulty he refers to inn dealing with Juvenile Offeredors, but the difficulty appears to me to be chiefly due

of any distinction in the

to the absence

treatiurut of obdult and Juvenile ffuders,

and the ne

necessity that at present exist

for enixing theme up together.

I think it would be for

wuone

simple and prefemble in every way to reform

the e

existing

Gaol institution to the extent

required than to establish a

semi- independent

: iwlitution such as that of sht. Louis School,

the stitus and conditions of which there

would be considerable

properly determining.

None of the

difficulty

in

reasons which prevail

in England for the establishment of

reformatories

reformatories appear weight in

in a Colorcy

lo

A

to have any

Hongkong

so siticate ao

and it is to be added also that the

number of Juvenile Offenders is very

swall.

I have

fo

(Ligued) H. E. Nodehouse Police Magistrate.