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The number of prisoners in spite

of these reductions is 710, including

Military

and 17 Naval prisoners.

18 M

e & very important

recommendation of the Committee

is that the diet should be

reduced. There is no doubt that

the diet is excessive, as there are some buckets full of leavings every day. As long as prisoners get better diet than free coolies, at the same time that they do less work, and none at all on

Saturday afternoons, which are

devoted to bathing and ablution,

Mor

Enclosure 2.

nor on

Sundays, whilst free men, paid

by the day, work every day, including

Sundays, the Gaol cannot have a deterrent effect. I was disposed to sanction the proposed reduction of diet at once,

but the Executive

Council thought it advisable that

the question should be referred home. The Superintendent of the

Gaol, in 1886, it will be seen, anticipates

trouble, and mutiny, and possible bloodshed, if such a radical change is introduced. We are quite ready

carry it out however, provided

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543 13 The number of prisoners in spite Is of of these reductions is 710, including Military and 17 Naval prisoners. 18 M 7. e & very important recommendation of the Committee is that the diet should be reduced. There is no doubt that the diet is excessive, as there are some buckets full of leavings every day. As long as prisoners get better diet than free coolies, at the same time that they do less work, and none at all on Saturday afternoons, which are devoted to bathing and ablution, Mor Enclosure 2. nor on Sundays, whilst free men, paid by the day, work every day, including Sundays, the Gaol cannot have a deterrent effect. I was disposed to sanction the proposed reduction of diet at once, but the Executive Council thought it advisable that the question should be referred home. The Superintendent of the Gaol, in 1886, it will be seen, anticipates trouble, and mutiny, and possible bloodshed, if such a radical change is introduced. We are quite ready to carry it out however, provided 10 he

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543 13 The number of prisoners in spite Is of of these reductions is 710, including Military and 17 Naval prisoners. 18 M 7. e & very important recommendation of the Committee is that the diet should be reduced. There is no doubt that the diet is excessive, as there are some buckets full of leavings every day. As long as prisoners get better diet than free coolies, at the same time that they do less-work, and none at all on Saturday afternoons, which are devoted to bathing and ablution, Mor Enclosure 2. nor on Sundays, whilst free men, paid by the day, work every day, including کیا Sundays, the Gaol cannot have a deterrent effect. I was disposed to sanction the proposed reduction of diet at once, but the Executive Corneil thought it advisable that the question should be referred home. The duperintendent of the and gane, 1886 Jaol, it will be seen, anticipates trouble, and mutiny, and possible bloodshed, if such a radical change is introduced. We is quite ready to carry it out however, provide 10 he

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