CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3] — Page 105

a telegraphic

Au Sloven.

The Committee's recommendations will be found

at pages Honchool's

XXX to

xxxv, M. May's and Mi

endeure on

hages

21 to 36 02

the

afpendix, and lettere from M. May on pages

83 to 97..

I think it is necessary

to come to a decision

jort h XXXII par 180

without any further guidance.

The following are some of the points

::(a)

The police force

is overmanned the bat the

sa

top with a superintendent and departy superintendent

in addition to a

Chief Inspector

We have

constantly nibbled at abolishing the deputy

suphintendent, and it has been much the same

story

here as in other branches of

senice i... that one man would be hard

of the Hongkong

-loorked, and two men va

men

are

very lightly

worked

can be

The proposal is Is make the superintendent and his deputy manage the gaol and possibly the fire brigade also. As to the gaol nothing can be done until M. Lethbridge transferred or fromoted. I do not altogether like the proposed combination, but on the Whok- I think it should be allowed. M. Mary

What

is a

that p.

XXX#

par. 181.

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XXX

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humane

al

well as a

very

1 firm and capable 102

fficer and is not at all likely to neglect

the gaol, and morever there is the g

advantage of combining, more or less, the getting a good

staff

and

class

I

wardas

or Huntleys from the ranks of the police

But I would make it a sine

qua

non

that the departy superintendent lives at

the gaol. ought to

the Su

I think a

high class

Offices

to live on the spot and would not accept

Suggestion

that the present quart of

the head of the gool should be utilised for other

purposes, much as

the

space

is wanted.

dord Ripon in October 1892

[17688] 'demurred to the combination

of prison

and police, and I then minuted Parhops the whole

against it,

it. On

to give way

recommends.

it would be well

and accept what the governor

As to the fire brigade. I think it is

advisable that it should be absorbed in the police,

police, a recommended

in

in 1891

by Mr Wodehouse, and not then accented

Arte

the governen i

"Whether this should woof