A
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this work. It would seem therefore that the Indian warder
Shanghai
in Shanghai is better material than he is in Hong Kong. This
is most likely due to the method of recruitment.
recruits its gaol staff in India; Hong Kong engages them
locally, which perhaps means that all those Indians who have
been dismissed from other employment find their way into the
Prisons service. The Hong Kong Police recruit their Indians
in India, and obtain a satisfactory type of man.
should be made for the Prisons Department to recruit there at
the same time. It should then be possible largely to replace
by Indians European warders, whose numbers will in any case
be reduced on the completion of the new gaol.
Arrangements
6. At present acting pay is granted to Indian prisons
officers if they act in a post higher than their own, even if
only for one day. The minimum qualifying period for acting
pay should be four months, the same as it is for other
Government departments. The saving effected would not be
very great, but it would relieve the Superintendent and the
Treasurer of a certain amount of
paper ↑ work.
7. There do not appear to be adequate reasons for the
employment of two European hospital supervisors.
One post
should be abolished.
8. The Trades Instructors, Chinese, of whom there are three,
have not apparently proved a satisfactory experiment.
of the posts should be abolished.
Two
9. If and when a new gaol is built, the Treasurer should
be required to consider and advise on the financial aspect
of gaol printing. In the Commissioners view this aspect of
the question has never yet been adequately considered by
Government. This view, they are of the opinion, is borne
out by the so called financial arguments put forward by
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