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THE CONVICT AT

WORK.

HIS DREAD OF HARD

LABOUR.

SECOND DIVISION DIET,

[DY L. E. CORDER]

Many times I am asked: "What happens to an offender when he alights from the Black Maria and enters the prison gates ? -

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

PRICE CURRENT AND MARKET REPORT.

BY HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The fortnightly price current and market report, published by the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce. dealing with imports, states:

COTTON PIECE GOODS AND FANCY Corros Goeps-larket quiet and no salea to report. The latest quotations are those of the 25th inst. Eg. Bakel. 16.00d. Mid. Amer. "Spot" 8.990.

It is a question not easily answer-

COTTON YAN. -The demand con- ed, for prison treatinent varies'no- cording to the sentence passed, and tinned on a small scale and prices there is a vast difference between have improved 1 to 82 per hale. perial servitude si ordinary hard Nominal quotations are as follows: labour. There are few old lags" No. 108. $145/170: No. 128. $155 who would not prefer three years' 169 No. 108. $170/175; No. 208. Arrivals: Nil. Ship- penal servitude, to 21 months hard #180/155.

Sales: Jil Unsold inbour, which is invariably describments: Ail.

Bargains: Led by all offenders as the worst of stocks: 800 bides. the shorter sentences. For its more 14,200 bales. agreeable diet, labour and discip WOOLLENS.-- Market very dni. line, penal servitade is more accept-Some enquiry for light weight wool- able to hardened convicts than what lens for December/January ship

ment but business, very small. would seem to the uninitiated the more merciful shorter sentence,

My knowledge of prison life. in this country is second-hand, being confined to talks with experienced police officers and reformed offen: Nevertheless I am able to

ders.

'HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

A.K. Bank

Do.. Chartered Mercantile K

Do

JULY 4, 1927, Big70 Hay..

1,075 gel. & so.

Loudon...£116 nou.

nom.

auto.

C...£13 nom

8020 sol,

P. & O. Bank£9. East Asia Bank... nom. Cauton Inspec China Underwritin $),Bu nom,

Th, 143 buy. North China Ins... T Come lusurance min8273

18279 30. Yangtze Lustranor....M. 340 nom. Chins Fire Insurance....210 buy. Hong Kong Firo ins.......00 al. Douglas

8311 bus. Steamboats ****

5229 vol. Hong Kong Tuga$1.10 nom,

De. Indo-Chinas (Prof.) 30 nom.

(Def.)......300 sel. Shell Transporte 98 nom. Biar Furries

bug., 32 sel.. Waterboats.

$10.30 buy. China Sugars..... Malabon Sugars Benguete Kalan Mining ad...... Lan,kats (combined).. Co. (single)

S'ha Explorations Shanghai Loons, Hauts.mmmt Tronoh Mes Urad Сакріпле nothing.K. & K. Wharte

RAW. Corross-No business report.

doing.

METALS-Market

dull,

to

FLOUR MARKET REPORT.-Stack: give any potential criminal an iden American, 350,000 bags; Canadian, 100,000 bags; Australian, 40,000 of what he may expect should hengs; total, 180.008) bage Market: caught in the act of breaking Dull and wenk Sales are very the laws society has made for its smail; there may be a little hard own protection."

to mouth buying, but no important Hard Labour.

business has been done. Quota Supposing that the offender bastions: American Patent, 84.10 per A term of hard sack; American Straight, $3.32-3.30 hent sentenced to labour, his daily routino-so I am per sack; American Cut off, 83.38. informed on excellent authority-70 per sack; Australian No. will be as follows:-

$3.50-3.65 par sack: Canadian Cut off 818-3.23 per sack; Canadian 6.15 am.-A warning bell with an

Straight, 83.15-3.90 per sack: Caun insistent note renees the prisonerdian Mixture, 83.10-11.50 per sack: from slumber-if any-and 15

Canadian 2nd Clear, $3.05 per sack. minute later the cell door is un-

WINDOW GLASS-Market steady. locked; if he has no application to SUGAR Jacket firmer. Demand mako to the governor, chaplain, or doctor he is again locked up, and improving. antil 7.15 he is kept busy cleaning his utensils and folding his bedding --not just ordinary cleaning and folding; but according to strict, rules that make for perfection.

Breakfast, served at 7.13, consists of a pint of porridge, soz. of bread, and a pins of tea. For an hour the prisoner is left to solitary con- templation and digestion, and then a belt sounds for chapel, which al 9,20 is followed by, a tional," consisting of silent walk ing exercise round a ciret, each man three yards from the one in front.

constitu

SALTPETRE-Stocks: 14,000 rags. Nothing noteworthy to report since last circular, Market quiet.

reiais

"TO MARY'S HOUSE!" BAND COMEDY AT CERE- MONY PERFORMED BY

PRINCESS. ·

A Manchester crowd was anused, when, as Princess Mary stepped down from a platform after de claring a foundation stone well and truly laid," the band strick the air, Let's all go to Mary's

Work begins at 10.30 ami usarlouse" The Princess spent six)

consist of stitching mail bags or spring cleaning the prism. The goods made in prison chops are never kald in the open market and for years prisoners have been kept exclusively on Government work,

Typleal. Dietary.

-At 11.45 the prisoner returns to bis cell, and at noon dinner is served. Bere is one week's menus

"customer' supplied to a regular

Sunday:-Corned beef potatoes, and 4oz. of bread.

Monday-Bacon unal beans,

and 40%. of bread.

anat

Tuesday and Friday:Veget able sonip and 1oz, of bread.

Wednesday and Saturday Suet pudding and bread.

Thursday: Meat and bread. After dinner the prisoner may read from two works of fetion and one of an educational nature, sup- plied each week, until 2 p.m., when he returns to work, where ho re- mains until 3.45.

Supper is served in his cell at 4 p.m., consisting of a pint of cocoa, Bez. of bread, and oz. of margarine.

He is now locked up for the night and kept occupied with light work until 7.15, when he puts down his bed-a board, a mattress, two blankets, and two shouts.

0 p.m.-Lights out.

It

hours

ameng the. Qursey and children of the city.

$2 nom.

$1.70

buy.

40/- buy. The. 20 mont. Tis. 9 nam..

....Tix.

Ti8. 7 no

ΒΟΖΗ.

19.3 nom.

H

.:: DOGE

$1.8 buy.

...$38 nom ..Ts, 145 buy.

5571

B.K. & W. Docks... Hand Hongkews....... New Engineerings.....11s. 63 nom. Shanghai Docks... is. 97 bay, 99 sel. H.K.&. sal. HK. Landa

buy. Hong Kong Realtye...... sel,

Territorials.......31 nom. H.K. Humphreys Estates.612) nom. Prince's Buildings...... ..389 zom. Baral Lands Ewe Cottons Orientals

Do

Amerients un

81 nom, ila. 7.35 nom. 2.10 nom.

$1 nom. ...319

Suom.

Shanghai Cottons (old)...Tls. 62 buy. (new)......Tis. 26 buy. Chiva Bases Tls, 7 bay, B.K. Tramways.$.56 buy, 20.90 sei. Peak Trams (old) dėlô sel.

Do. (now).........35 sel Singapore Tractions...10% bay.. 11/81. Taxis............ Cauton less Coments (combined)......872) eel. (old) Do. (new) Lights(comb.i....314 8), Do.

(uld)$10) |

nom. Do. (new)

nom China Providents.........84 Luy.

..52.30. nom..

$15

Chins

Do.

Constructions

Lsul.

Dairy Farms Der A Wings 36 now. H.K. Electrics Macan Eletrics H.K. Ropa (oid)

Do,

(now)

Lane Crawfords.. Mackintosha.......

Suceres L

United Arbatos Wilsons (old) Wai. Powella..... Telephobes

,52:15 Boi.

835

10 nom.

810

$5 nom.

Si xei. „$194 nom. ..$34. nom. Stu. now. $ilf now,

So num. $3,70 nom.

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After she had watched a march-buy-buyers; past of nurses in Beaton Park she stumbled on the edge of the plat form, and was only sived from a. nasty fall by the quick netion of the Lord Mayor, who seized her arin.

Against this criticism of a prisani diet, which certainly does not seem to make for "semi-starvation," must be placed the testimony of a vegetarian prisoner who had been surprised that he was put on a vegetarian diet at his own request, and came out of gaol after a short sentence more physically fit thau when

he entered it.

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Another second division prisoner who served six months in Worm- wood Scrubs for "libelling Mr. Winston Churchill asserts that life there was simply hellish.ON

"The Other prisonera said to him, food is awful, but after a time you will get so hungry that you will On eat it, I never got to that stage, and I have lost 201b. in weight, he says.

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Prison clothing is not remarkable for cut and fit, but it is warm and of good material, as are also the The routine differs on Saturday boots. If a prisoner does not feel when the prisoner is locked up in well he has only to nek to see the his cell until 10.15 on Sunday doctor, and I am told that the

death rate in prisons is extra-ON morning, when he goes to chapel.

low and the infirmaries 1st" And " 2nd Divisions.

ordinarily may come as a surprise to the are almost empty. unsophisticated reader to knew The number of years spent in that there is little difference in es- prison by long-service convicts can sential conditions between the first be told from their clothing. Dur and second division in prison life. ing the first year the coat is all Except that he is permitted to but in the second the cuffs and col- In the write more letters, and in certain lar show black facings. circumstances to see more visitors, third year the man oan by continu: HOW FRANK HODGES WAS

the third to the second division prisoner has ed good behaviour rise

the ordinary stage, in which the facings are yel- little advantage over

low. Ia

It is a truism that public life the next stage the facings offender.

Now that inany motorists are blue, and in the last stage of tends inevitably to produce cyni throughout the country are being all-attained only by

A. J. COOK'S VENDETTA.

HOUNDED FROM OFFICE.

pria bettor illustration than the trent sent to prison without the option men of good behang satenteeism, and it could hardly receive

E

They Don't Pay How.

Hodges because he did not side with

the disastrous policy forced on the

Bugs, Fleas, Flies, Beetles, Mosquitoes,

etc.,

all killed by

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sons are on a self-supporting basis, by the extremists, some of whom Hore

is his criticism of the week and 60 years ago our prisons were were certainly acting in collusion ly dietary

self-supporting, Brut to-day with Moscow, and hardly make any with little food they cost us a lot of money. The seerot of the fact. Mr Frank Thin porridge value, and ven stowed until the labour of the men doing penal ser Ho

Hodges, the ablest spokesmen the flavour" had gone. Boiled beef, vitude does little more than pay miners ever had, and one of the

ablest món in the Labour quite good, and corned beef, also for their food. vory palatable. Suet pudding, a All the pay of the Prison Board, has been pursued by Mr. A.

Cook's

bitter enmity.

Party

And now,.

sickly, stodgy mess served in salt the governors, and the big staff of though his Continental colleagues gravy. Stew served an a finely warders comes out of the pocketsupported him, Mr. Hodges's 're- granulated paste, apparently of the tax-payers. thickened with ground peas with The men work only seven hours

a bitter noxious flavour. Bacon, a day, and warders say that, it only two inches long and mostly takes three convicts to do the work of one free man, as all prison work Bumming up the week's fare,in

perfunctory.

fat.

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signation as secretary to the Inter- national Minera Federation, for which the extremists in the British Federation have worked assiduous- fy, kas been compelled. The speci I had two good dinners, the other. As all prison-made articles must ous protext that Mr. Hodges's posi midday meals being made up al- be devoted to Government use out tion on the Electricity Board clash- most entirely of potatoes, cooked put in limited and there is no ined with his secretarial duties de per annum for delivery in Hon contive to the prisoners to work; ceives nobody. It is said that Mr. Keng; including Postage to any

Cook did not conceal his jubilation, part of the worldTM #16 they merely muddle through.

in their skins, and beet

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