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COST OP PRISONS A reduetion of £2000 was eft'ected in the cost of purchasing rations for prisoners in New Zealand during the past financial year, the annual report of the Prisons Department states. Economy was possihle hy progressively developing the system of ohtaining supplies from the prison farms and gardens, hy extending the supply of meat to city institutions from the prison farms, hy advantagcous purchases of fro'/.en meat and hy baking in the institutions, the whole of the department's hread requirements. The cost last year per prisoner for purchased rations was £8 10/- per head, whicli was much lower than in 1014 when the figure was £11 16/-. Including Ihe value of the produce from the department's farms and gardens the cost per liead of purchased foodstuffs now amounted to 9Jd a day. This result, said the report, is a distinctly satisfactory achievement particularly in view of the fact that there has been no reduetion whatever in tho quantity or quality of the rations supplied though on the other hand they have been made more varied, hetter halanced, and in some respects increased.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 340, 29 September 1932, Page 5
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186GALLERY JOTTINGS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 340, 29 September 1932, Page 5
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