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Monday, January 21, 1974
BIGGER KITCHEN FOR STANLEY PRISON
The kitchen in Stanley Prison will be improved to cope with
the demand of the present capacity of the prison.
The improvement includes the replacement of 16 rice boilers by
modern stainless steel rice boilers.
New cooking equipment will be provided in view of the increased
number of inmates.
In addition, the kitchen will be expanded from the existing 4,900
square feet to about 7,000 square feet.
Improvement work will begin in March and will take about 10
months. to complete.
Commenting on the project, a spokesman for the Prisons Department
Baid that the improvement was necessary because the existing kitchen was
out-dated and the layout of equipment badly planned.
He said that the kitchen was designed in 1935 to cater for 1,500
inmates
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only half of the present capacity of 3,000.
No comments yet.
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