G.—No. 44.

RETURN OF THE EXPENSE OF MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF [PRISONERS.

RETURN of the EXPENSE of MANAGEMENT, MAINTENANCE, and CONTROL of PRISONERS, in the various GAOLS of the COLONY, for the Year ending 31st December, 1870, and of the VALUE of WORK done by such Prisoners during the same period, according to tho estimate of the Engineer, Town Surveyor, or other Professional Officer under whose direction the work has been performed.

Places. Expenditure. Valuation of Work Done. Profit. l;0S3. Valuation of Labour. mckland £ s. d. 3,670 7 7 £ s. d. 4,37G 0 0 £ b. d. 705 12 5 £ s. d. 2s. Gd., 3s., and 5s. per diem. 2s. per diem. 4s. per diem. 3s. per diem. 5s. per diem. 3s. (3d. per diem. 7s. and 10s. per diem. 4s. to G3. per diem. Europeans, 4s. to 6s. ; Maoris, 2s. 6d. perdieni. 'aranaki lawke's Bay... Vellington ... f elson tarlborough... Vestlaud Canterbury ... )tago 344 8 6 1,110 8 3 2,149 5 2 1,284 3 7 563 10 5 1,821 1 10 3,590 2 7 7,962 5 2 158 2 0 721 8 10 1,917 15 2 1,329 15 0 260 16 9 2,519 18 9 3,319 18 3 7,819 4 0 4511 5 186 6 388 9 231 10 302 13 6 5 0 8 698 16 11 270 4 143 1 4 2* Expenditure, £22,495 13 1") Value of Work, 22,422 18 9 j or ' f Loss, £1,522 15 (.Profit, 1,450 0 15 0 1 i) 1 9 Balance ... £72 14 4 Bal. of Loss, £72 14 4 • There is an estimated profit on European labour in Otago of And a loss on Maori labour of £1,629 7 10 1,772 9 0 Giving this result £143 1 2