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Mr. Lethbridge pointing out ~ the necessity of re-organising the staff of Victoria Gaol, and submitting a scheme whereby such re-organisation could be effected without any ap- preciable increase of expend-

iture.

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The state of affairs in the Gaol disclosed in Mr. Lethbridge's report shews ~ little, if any, improvement

on

that which existed in

former years and is in my

opinion

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opinion so discreditable as to call for immediate reform

In 1891 the Officer Ad_

3.

ministering the Government

had occasion to invite the at

tention of Your Lordship's pred- ecessor to the unsatisfactory state of the Gaol staff which then existed and subsequent

en

correspondence led to the gaging of ten men at home for the local prison service, nine of whom Army~ Reserve men, it being found

were

impossible

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