✨ Regulations and Appointment
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A separate register shall be kept in a book, specially appropriated to the purpose, in which the names of all women detained in the Reformatory shall be entered, with the religious persuasion to which they shall declare themselves to belong; and this register shall be open for inspection to all persons visiting the Reformatory.
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A book shall be kept, in which the date of all visits made by Ministers of religion shall be entered by them, with any remarks which may seem good to them.
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Stated days and hours shall be appointed, subject to the approval of the Superintendent, by the Master of the Gaol, at which Ministers of religion may visit women detained in the Reformatory of their own persuasion. The time of such visits to be so arranged as not to interfere with any period of relaxation.
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In cases of dangerous illness permission shall be accorded to Ministers of religion to visit women detained in the Reformatory at other times than those regularly stated.
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No woman detained in the Reformatory shall be required or invited to attend any religious service, or join in any religious exercise whatever, conducted by a Minister or other person of a different denomination;
provided always that any woman so detained, who may wish it, shall be permitted to do so, by making a request in writing or before witnesses, to the Master of the Gaol, or Visiting Justices.
- Ministers of religion and visitors are prohibited from any conversation on religious or controversial subjects, with inmates of the Reformatory not registered as of their own denomination, unless at the special request of the inmates themselves, conveyed through the Master of the Gaol or the Visiting Justices, in the manner provided for in the preceding rule.
Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this 15th day of April, 1872.
W. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent of Canterbury.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, April 15, 1872.
HIS honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint
BURRELL PARKERSON, Esq., M.R.C.S.,
to be Visiting Surgeon of the Female Reformatory, at Addington.
WALTER KENNAWAY,
Provincial Secretary.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1872, No 20
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Regulations for Female Reformatory at Addington
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⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement15 April 1872
Regulations, Female Reformatory, Addington Gaol, Religious Visits
- W. Rolleston, Superintendent of Canterbury
🏥 Appointment of Visiting Surgeon for Female Reformatory
🏥 Health & Social Welfare15 April 1872
Appointment, Visiting Surgeon, Female Reformatory, Addington
- Burrell Parkerson (Esquire, M.R.C.S.), Appointed Visiting Surgeon
- Walter Kennaway, Provincial Secretary