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Return showing in detail the Quantity of Articles and Materials prepared by Prisoners— contd.

A. Hume, 15th June, 1888. Inspector of Prisons. [Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, nil; printing (1,273 copies), £2 ss.]

Authority : Geokgk Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington.—lBBB.

Quantity Article or Materia], Cost j to Colony. To whom sold. I Price at j Cost and Character which sold, j of Machinery used. D unedin Prison. Doz. prs. 29J Socks* .. £ s. a. Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company £ s. d. 7 7 6 Needles in common use since 1882. Nine sets knittingpins, 6s. Doz. j 5 i Cardigan jackets .. Loads. | 102 Stone (unprepared) 12 0 0 Seacliff Lunatic Asylum 22 10 0 Mr. Branchley 4 10 0 hv i'telton Prison. j 400 0 0 Presses, type, &c, £350. Printing "! t50 0 0 I Government Printer.. IS Iapier Prison. 122 18 3 0 14 0 0 18 0 4 4 0 7 10 0 0 9 0 3 9 0 5 3 0 13 6 1 10 0 0 3 0 Loads. 1,200 Eoad-metal 7 8 05 Limestone 188 Sand 1 5 7 18 40 4 Bags. 4 j Lime 31 i ♦Nil + + " + + u §10 0 Napier Corporation John Stevens J Hastings Borough Council Glendinning and Griffin Napier Corporation .Tames Murphy John Stevens C. Beechy A. Pultord .. Glendinning and Griffin W. Miller James Murphy E. Praser .. 0 12 0 3 17 6 Wei. xikgton Prisons. No. 431,600 Bricks, common .. 323 10 0 Government Printing Office .. 1,079 0 0 Brick-making machine, engine, &c, say, £1,000. 9,000 39,000 „ pressed 18,000 , perforated 6,000 „ splay 11,600 „ chimney .. 1 Writing-desk and stool 28 Picture-frames 10 6 10 1 Meat-safe 1 Dog-kennel 6 15 0 29 5 0 18 10 0 4 10 0 8 14 0 10 7 1 10 0 0 6 0 0 3 0 0 5 0 1 18 5 0 6 4 Lunatic Asylum Government Printing Office .. 22 10 0 175 10 0 45 0 0 15 0 0 29 0 0 1 19 1 3 14 6 17 0 1 1 0 Defence Department Hospital Gaoler Hon. the Minister of Justice (Mr. Tole) Gaoler Captain Hume 16 6 4 6 5 0 16 10 Pairs. 1 Boots 1 0 7 3 0 8 11 Defence Department Gaoler 0 12 6 0 16 5 "The been emi: $ Fuel, &c material supplied by the company. t For ink, oil, &c. Paper supplied by Gove: tloyed getting out stone for building rctaining-wall around prison-yards, and all sti •nment Printe: me and sand i t Prisoners have unsuitable were sold.