SEPT. 24.: THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

hereof: Provided that no marks shall be allotted to prisoners, other than cooks, cleaners, and others
fully employed on such days, for Sundays, prison holidays, or days on which for any reason they do
not proceed to labour.

386. Men who are skilled in any trade or occupation upon reception, or who afterwards become
     so skilled, may be paid at the rate of 1¼d. per mark when employed at such trade or occupation, upon
     a recommendation to that effect being made by the Controlling Officer to the Controller-General.

387. The money earned by a prisoner shall be credited to him in an account kept by the Controlling
     Officer, but no earnings shall be so credited until each such prisoner has served the first three months
     of his sentence, and has passed out of the probationary grade prescribed by these regulations or by
     general orders.

388. From the earnings account of every prisoner deductions will be made in accordance with the
     following scale, viz.: 6d. per week during the first month after passing out of the probationary grade,
     7d. per week during the succeeding month, and 8d. per week thereafter until the prisoner is promoted
     to the special-labour grade, when the deduction will be at the rate of 9½d per week.

389. Any prisoner who has once been released upon probation and is rearrested and returned to
     prison, either for a breach of the conditions of his probationary license or for a further offence, shall
     not be eligible for the earning of pay marks until four months after his reception, unless the Controller-
     General otherwise directs.

390. During the first calendar month after passing out of the probationary grade every prisoner
     shall be allotted six marks per diem for each day upon which his industry is exemplary and his
     conduct good.

391. After a satisfactory record for the first month he shall be allotted seven marks per diem
     for the second month.

392. A similar record during the second month shall entitle him to an allotment of eight marks
     per diem for the third month, and with a continuance of industry combined with good conduct he shall
     be given the same number of marks per diem until the end of the first year of his sentence.

393. Every prisoner whose record during the second six months of his sentence is of such a
     nature as to satisfy the Controlling Officer that he has been carrying out the work assigned to him to
     the best of his ability may be recommended by such Controlling Officer to the Controller-General for
     promotion to the special-labour grade. When promoted to that grade he shall be allotted nine marks
     per day.

394. Cooks, cleaners, and others whose duties require them to work for the greater part of each
     Sunday or holiday shall be given the same number of marks for such days as they are allotted for
     ordinary working-days.

395. Stablemen, drivers, dairymen, and others who are required to work longer hours than those
     provided for in the routine of any prison may be recommended to the Controller-General for payment
     of overtime at the rate of 1d. per hour for every full hour worked in excess of the routine hours. All
     overtime is to be calculated on a weekly basis, and in specially deserving cases the Controller-General
     may award an extra gratuity in addition to the scale overtime payment.

396. Prisoners who are absent from labour on account of illness shall not be credited with marks
     carrying pay during such absence. All such cases shall be reported to the Controller-General by the
     Controlling Officer, who shall state in his report whether the absentee from labour is deserving of
     special consideration by way of allotment of pay marks during the period of his illness. The Con-
     troller-General shall then decide whether the whole or part of the pay marks lost shall be restored to
     the absentee or not.

Visiting Justices.—Infliction of Fines, &c.

397. Visiting Justices may inflict, in addition to or in lieu of any punishments they may impose
     upon prisoners under the Prisons Act, such further punishment for prison offences by way of fine or
     deprivation of pay marks under these regulations as they deem fit, provided that no fine so inflicted
     shall exceed the equivalent of 120 marks. They may also, within their discretion, reduce the daily
     marks that may be earned by an offender for any period not exceeding one calendar month after the
     date of conviction for the offence for which he is being punished, provided that the daily marks shall
     not be reduced to less than four.

PART XIII.—PAYMENT OF DAILY WAGES TO PRISONERS FOR THE SUPPORT OF DEPENDANTS.

398. All able-bodied male prisoners with proved dependants shall be paid, in addition to and
     inclusive of the industry and conduct allowance provided for in Part XII, a daily wage which shall
     be used as the Minister directs towards maintaining such dependants. Prisoners with dependants
     shall be known as “wages-men.”

399. Wages paid under this Part of the regulations shall be assessed on a scale rate, and shall be
     allotted by means of marks similarly to the payments made to all prisoners under Part XII. The
     rate for labourers shall be 1s. per mark. Wages-men who are skilled in any trade or occupation on
     reception, or who afterwards become so skilled, may be paid a rate not exceeding 1s. 3d. per mark
     while employed at such trade or occupation, but this rate shall not be paid without the approval
     of the Controller-General. Officers when forwarding their recommendations for the payment of the
     skilled rate must state the degree of competency of each man so recommended in his particular trade
     or occupation, and the proportion of the additional rate to which he is entitled. No overtime shall
     be allowed or paid for except with the written consent of the Controller-General, and in no case shall
     payment for overtime be at a higher rate than 1s. per hour unless the Minister’s approval is obtained
     for the payment of an additional sum as a reward for specially meritorious work.