30. Mr. J. JONESasked the Home Secretary whether he will consider the advisability of the pay and conditions of ser vice in the criminal lunatic asylums being assimilated to those prevailing in the English prisons?
§ Mr. SHORTTYes; this matter is now being considered. it is impossible, on account of the difference between the work in criminal lunatic asylums and the work in prisons, to obtain complete assimilation, but steps are being taken to give the attendants in the asylums concessions substantially equivalent to those now enjoyed by prison warders.