CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9] — Page 219

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Rules 290–294 which deal

with the infliction of

Corporal punishment, I have

to refer you

to the 4th para: of

my Despatch No 141 of the 26th

July last, in which I positad

out that the instinctions in

to Corps floggings contrived

regard

No 2:54 of the

in my Despatch No 254

25th hou's 1896 had bees disre.

garded

in the new Rules haud

(17041)

The Instructions referred to, which limited the power to floy for prison

Imart express my surprise

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that my explicit that

instruction

They were

so unstractions of to explicet &

and

not

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direct a charactive should have

offences to

a greater extent thew is the care in other

Crown Colonies,

were reudered

recessary by things abrese

of those powers in the

Victoria Gaol, and we

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brew reversed without reference:

to me

I

must request you

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to Furnish

me with

some

explanation of

the

matter.

If I am now however, forepared

to modify the spreside

restuctions unport on this

рогно

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facilitate the offertes

anflection o

extand this forew of penishment

further

a greater extent thaw I am prepared to approve. I am

however willing

to modify

the special restrictions

unposed by my Despulch

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