JUNE 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1301

106. Except in the day-school, corporal punishment shall not be inflicted in the presence of other inmates.

107. Except for grave offences, such as are specified in Regulation No. 101, corporal punishment shall not be inflicted upon inmates who are over seventeen years of age.

108. Such whipping as mothers administer in private with the open hand or with the sole of a light slipper is not forbidden.

109. No stroke on the head or neck can in any case be tolerated under any name whatever, and shaking, pushing, and all similar forms of punishment are prohibited.

110. In every case in which corporal punishment is to be inflicted under the authority of these regulations, the person to inflict the punishment shall have due regard to the health and strength of the inmate to be punished.

111. No inmate shall be handcuffed or chained.

112. Light shall not be excluded from any cell to such an extent as to make it difficult for a person to read ordinary newspaper type; and when a cell is occupied a light shall be shown therein from dusk to daylight. (In accordance with section 9 of “The Industrial Schools Act Amendment Act, 1895,” confinement in a dark room for any offence whatsoever is prohibited.)

113. When an inmate is found guilty of any grave offence that, in the opinion of the manager, renders it necessary that such inmate shall be completely separated from all other inmates, a cell may be used to effect such separation.

114. The medical officer shall see that the cells are suitable for the detention of inmates.

115. The medical officer shall give such instructions to the manager as he considers necessary to provide that inmates shall not suffer injury to health during their detention in cells.

116. In a reformatory any inmate may be confined in a cell for any period not exceeding one week, but if the period exceeds forty-eight hours the sanction of a Stipendiary Magistrate, a Justice of the Peace, or of the Minister must be previously obtained.

117. No inmate of a reformatory shall, after undergoing confinement in a cell for more than forty-eight hours for any offence, be again confined for the same or any other offence until seven days have elapsed.

118. At other schools no inmate may be confined in a cell for more than ten hours consecutively. Inmates of these schools shall not be kept in confinement after daylight has passed. After an inmate has undergone confinement in a cell for more than six hours he shall not be again confined for the same or any other offence until after the lapse of three days.

119. Every inmate confined in a cell shall be taken for exercise outside the cell for two hours a day, and during confinement shall be regularly visited at least once in every two hours from 5.30 a.m. to 9.30 p.m.

120. Every inmate confined in a cell shall be provided with such articles as are necessary for his bodily wants; and suitable food shall be supplied to him at the ordinary hours for meals.

121. In every cell there shall be means whereby an inmate may, at any time during the day or night, attract the attention of the officer of the school whose duty it is to supervise such inmate, and such officer shall, on receiving the communication, see without loss of time why he has been summoned.

122. The manager may, at his discretion, punish an inmate by restraint of liberty or by restriction of diet; subject, however, to the strict observance of the following rules:—

(a.) The punishment of bread-and-water diet must not last longer than twenty-four hours at one time, and must not be repeated without an interval of seven days.

(b.) The substitution of porridge for the ordinary dinner may not be continued in any case for more than seven days. The deprivation of pudding or other esteemed article of diet may not be continued in any case for more than seven days, or, in a reformatory, for more than thirty days. After undergoing a punishment named in this clause for any number of days, an inmate shall not be punished again in the same way until after the lapse of as many days.

(c.) In any case where such restriction of diet as is named in clause (b) of this regulation is imposed as a punishment, care must be taken that food is supplied in sufficient quantity and in sufficient variety to satisfy a healthy and natural appetite.

(d.) No other restrictions of diet but those specified in this regulation will be allowed.

123. Punishment by the imposition of some badge of degradation, or of some special article of dress, may be inflicted, but not without the sanction of the Minister.