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The only additional appointments would be (setting aside the penal prison): Ist, a Director of Prisons; 2nd, two surgeons (if new prisons were built), one for each of the invalid prisons; and a discipline clerk (a warder), and a schoolmaster, at each of the large prisons. The subordinate staff of warders should be—one warder to every eight prisoners in public-works prisons, and one warder to every ten prisoners in close prisons. The existing prisons, in so far as they are suitable, could be utilized and converted into close or public-works prisons. The interior economy of prison matters requires careful handling, and it is a hard question—far from being yet decided—as to the best mode of dealing with the criminal classes. Trusting that I shall not have been thought to be dictatorial in the above, but simply jotting down my ideas of New Zealand prison requirements, I have, &c, Sam. Chas. Phillips, Chief Gaoler.

RETURN of the NUMBER of PRISONERS CONFINED in the PRISONS in NEW ZEALAND, according to latest Returns received.

LIST of VISITING JUSTICES to PRISONS.

Prison at Hales. Females. Prison at Males. Females. Vddington Uiaura ... Vrrowtown Auckland Charleston :iyde ... Dunedin ... jxisborne .. xrey mouth lokitika... „ (Lower Gaol) .nvercargill luinara ... 64 1 1 181 1 8 145 8 5 25 3 24 2 2 1 114 46 5 32 53 "i 35 1 9 2 8 3 2 1 Nelson ... Newcastle New Plymouth Oamaru ... Opotiki ... Picton Queenstown Keefton ... Ross Russell ... Thames ... Tauranga Timaru ... Wanganui Wellington Westport 16 5 13 7 2 7 1 2 1 2 15 4 37 37 100 2 1 1 1 3 Lawrence jyell jyttelton Napier ... ... 4 1 13 1 Total 887 167

Prison. Visiting Justices. Auckland B. Maclean, E. C. Barstow, D. M. Luckie. H. W. Brabant. A. Graham, H. Kenrick. C. Thomson, G. A. Preece. W. N. Searancke, A. Cox. W. M. Crompton, H. E. Kenny, T. King, E. Pavris, C. Brown. H. S. Tiffen, J. Anderson. W. H. Watt, J. Nixon, E. Hardcastle. W. Lyon, J. Woodward, E. Pearce, J. Dransfield, J. Paul. W. Wells, E. Pollock, C. H. Brown, O. Curtis, J. Sharp. J. W. Humphrey, C. Broad. J. Allen, A. P. Seymour, W. D. H. Baillie. G. L. Hellish, G. W. Hall. T. H. Potts, W. Donald, H. E, Webb. B. Woolcombe, F. Archer. J. A. Bonar, E. C. Eeid, J. Giles. W. H. Eevell, J. Greenwood, jun. A. Chetham-Strode, J. Logan, T. Eraser, W. H. Eeynolds, I. N. Watt, W. Purdie, J. P. Thomson, A. Willis, E. B. Cargill, W. H. CutteD, W. Fraser, James Brown. W. L. Simpson, V. Pyke. H. A. Stratford, J. B. Lake. E. H. Carew, W. G. Eees. H. W. Eobinson, L. W. Bush. W. H. Pearson, J. F. Dundas, D. McArthur. S. Deighton, H. T. Pattison. T. W. Parker, J. Udall. H. A. Stratford, W. Mason. Tauranga Gisborne Opotiki Newcastle New Plymouth ... Napier Wanganai Wellington Nelson Westport Picton Addington Lyttelton Timaru Hokitika Grey mouth Dunedin Clyde Arrow Lawrence Naseby Invercargill Chathams Oamaru Queenstown 'rice 2s. 6d.] By Authority : Geobge Didsbuet, GoTerninent Printer, Wellington.—1878.