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of a

a new and more commodious

prison.

2.

When writing my

despatch N:226 of the 2nd.

August, I

was not

of

of you

18451868

aware

of

the suggestion for the creation

of a wing of the contemplated New Gaol, contained in your Lordships despatch No 9i of. 9th of June, 1887, and adverted

of the

to in despatches N: 204 of the

of the

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30th of November, 1887, No 86 of the 100 y

6th of June, 1887, and N: 42 the 27th of April, 1888; and

of

was

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was

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similarly ignorant, when the remarks on the

making

subject of Gaol Accommodation

in my message in connection with the Estimates of 1889.

3.

As will be seen.

from these remarks, the subject has not escaped my

attention, and, but for

a

strong feeling that the - number of prisoners who ought to remain in confinement

here is not, and is not likely

to be, greater than could be

readily

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