[South Africa] Cape of Good Hope. Parliament – Cape of Good Hope. Report on the Management and Discipline of Convict Stations and Prisons for the Year 1895

Cape Town: W. A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1896. Cape of Good Hope. Parliament – Cape of Good Hope. Report on the Management and Discipline of Convict Stations and Prisons for the Year 1895, Cape Town: W. A. Richards & Sons, 1895

Chips to spine tips and edges of wrappers. Very Good.

330 x 203 mm; original printed side-stitched and staples olive green wrappers; 33, xcix pp. A compendious report on convict stations and prisons throughout the Cape Colony, including detailed tabulations covering all aspects of penal institutions their inmates and management.

"Amongst these annexures will be found a most interesting report by the Reverend B.P.J. Marchand on his visits to Reformatories, Industrial and other institutions in the United Kingdom and Germany with suggestions and recommendations."

Rev. Bernard Petrus Jacobus Marchand (22 August 1853 in Wellington - 5 October 1917 in Rondebosch) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and one of the founders of the labor colony in Kakamas, an irrigation scheme whose purpose was to uplift poor whites. He was also instrumental in the founding of the Rustenburg Girls 'School founded and later Rondebosch Boys' School. Item #2742

Price: $50.00