RESURRECTED VANITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 626, 1 October 1909, Page 3

RESURRECTED VANITIES.

' There., has? been quite a flutter /hero, among the', prison dovecotes (writes a Sydney corres-. pondent to; the?"Australasian'o. The,new sys; ;tem,- just- adopted; .by, the controller; .of;gaols in' New, South. Wales, 1 of ; transferring, all the prisoners. from /country. and suburban gaols to the one . larg'o> prison; just- completed :at. Long ■Bay, was responsible' for: some unusual sights lately at,the .'central-railway station. 'Specially constructed trains', might. be seen daily leaving the; station,', filled ■ with .female' its , Sunday; best., '; Prison: garb .'was, evidently p'urpb's'ely fallowed . ' to: bo . discardeS'; ;for. ; ,tho removal, and the-occupants of "Blact-'Emma'.' put;-on. all . their finest war-paint. One ' jras seeii.'wearing ;.a muff antl long'stole neck-1 let--of bearskin,though the ..day was.va. particularly '. warm., one. - 'Everything they pos,'sessed of finery, was donned for. the'loccasio'n, and each carried a little .handbag,' generally of the'' fashibnable ."Dorothy" persuasion. f'.ln , fact; th6ro.was,a kind of snbdiicd.air of. gaiety I about the, proceedings,-, as of trippers. travelling •incog." The • transference ■of so; large number of' prisoners from ■■ all . parts of South Wales to one central- spot was done., quietly, "withont a hitch, and w;ith no undue .publicity.,