11/11/2022 0 Comments Cockatoo island![]() It is only a mile and a half beyond Goat Island, where the best conducted establishment in the Colony has been fixed for the last three or four years, but which we are now on the point of breaking up, as, by the completion of the Powder Magazine on it, it is no longer a desirable place for a large body of Convicts, and is also too small conveniently to accommodate them. Should it be desired to try the effect of any new system of management, as for instance that which has been proposed by Captain Maconochie, no place in New South Wales would be so well calculated for it as Cockatoo Island, surrounded as it is by deep water, and yet under the very eye of Authority. ![]() Vary in distance from 200 to 800 miles in consequence of which, they have rarely, if ever, been visited by the Governor of the Colony, or by any person high in authority, and it has been found successively to abandon them all except the latter. All the Penal stations of this Colony, that is to say, stations for doubly convicted men, seem to me to have been erroneously placed at great distances from the seat of Government: Port Macquarie, Wellington Valley, Moreton Bay and Norfolk Island By bringing them from Norfolk Island to Cockatoo, the duration of their sentences is reduced by more than one half, and they are more-over brought under the immediate eye of the Governor. Norfolk Island, if they had not been removed for Norfolk Island was so full, that we could not in March last send another man there, so crowded was every building. The expence of erecting shelter on Cockatoo Island for these men will not be greater than it would have been necessary to incur at ![]() I have caused an Establishment to be formed here for the reception of Prisoners withdrawn from Norfolk Island, order the Act passed in the last Session of the Legislature of the Colony which I had the honor to bring under Your Lordship's notice in my Despatch of the 26th Jany., 1839. ![]() The Second Item, which I have authorised, is an Establishment on the Island called 'Cockatoo.' which is about four miles from Sydney situated in that branch of the Harbour which leads to Parramatta. Governor Gipps' reasons for doing so are set out in correspondence to Lord Glenelg dated. The penal establishment on Cockatoo Island was first sanctioned by Governor George Gipps over 180 years ago. ![]()
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