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Receipts for Successive Years. The following table illustrates clearly the growth of the Department as a revenue-producing business since the policy of agricultural and industrial development was initiated in 1911-12. i Cash Receipts and Credits. £ £ 1912 .. .. .. 5,451 1917-18 .. .. 15.083 1913 .. .. .. 7,382 1918-19 .. ..21,654 1914 .. .. .. 9,162 1919-20 .. .. 31,177 1915 .. .. .. 11,982 1920-21 .. .. 39,136 1916-17 .. .. 9,867 1921-22 .. .. 49,866 The detailed figures showing the earnings of the different institutions during the past financial year are as follows : —

TABLE 1. —Cash received and Amounts credited to the Prisons Vote for the Year ended 31st March, 1922.

Value of Prison Labour for which neither Cash nor Financial Credits are received. The actual cash receipts shown in the preceding table do not by any means cover the full labour value of the work of prisoners during the past financial year. A large amount of work is carried out for which the Prisons Department receives no payment whatever, but the expenditure of labour in the various channels has the effect either of developing lands or other State assets or of saving expenditure that must otherwise be incurred. The details and value of this work arc shown in the following table :—

Table 2. —Total Value of Prison Labour employed on Roads, Buildings, Reclamation, Wall-building, and other Public Works, for which no Financial Credit has been received, for the Year ended 31st March, 1922.

Prison or Institution. Metal, Gravel, &c. Parmand I Parm ; n-, ta Dairy- ' Stock. M10 ""- produce. Corrcrete Blocks and Tiles. Timber and Firewood. Boots. Prisorr Labour on Public Buildings. Prison lload- Officers works worns. (m pubUc Buildings. Sundries. Totals. Addington Auckland Invereargill .. NapierNew Plymouth Point Halswell Paparua Waikune Waikeria Wellington .. Wi Tako Minor gaols .. Miscellaneous £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ 20 20 75 £ 20 14,031 9,890 175 642 1,168 8,901 2,758 7,501 1,773 1,552 150 705 11,370 2,077 1,603 1,258 1,168 880 •197 2,910 606 2,021 175 518 58 56 81 70 824 1,634 3,032 619 10 1,374 1,439 487 3,447 1,286 1,017 1,071 25 570 10 64 8 75 15 323 51 .12 195 3,205 1,313 127 100 1,179 150 705 Totals .. 6,082 3,982 374 3,800 1,646 1,367 — 11,535 1,386 6,489 1,142 12,063 49,866

Prison. Buildings and Walls. Construction and Maintenance of Roads. Excavationwork and Preparation of Necessary Orounds. £ <Drr< a +h — 1 s «$ •3gr3-g a -v o tn J-SB 3 o -- a o 'ti r| 2 33 r 33 M Electriclighting Drainageinstalla- works, tion. Totals. Auckland Invereargill Paparua Point Halswell Waikeria Waikune Wellington Wi Tako £ 950 2,646 1,450 634 577 220 540 1,951 £ 430 1,520 570 840 171 £ 124 1,050 151 93 126 18!) 772 £ 260 450 326 76 £ 737 £ 162 30 35 £ 2,240 £ 1,926 8,673 2,346 1,660 920 346 995 4,254 3 275 461 540 530 Totals . . 8,968 4,267 2,496 1,652 737 227 2,773 21,120 As under other prison systi ihowing the actual value of the sms it has 1 work of prisi •een the pre mere emplo; .ctice fo ml in d •r some ; .evelopin /ears pas 1 2 farming to publis] properties, figures making