--------------------------+-----------+-----------+----------- | Class A. | Class B. | Class C. | Centimes. | Centimes. | Centimes. +-----------+-----------+----------- Workshops, etc. | 47-71 | 24-47 | 24 Cultivation, | | | plantation, and | | | navvies' work | 42-60 | 21-42 | 21 Domestic and agricultural | | | work | 18-27 | 9-18 | 9 --------------------------+-----------+-----------+----------- Of their earnings one-third is paid to the inmates at once and the balance is given to them on discharge. The costs of maintenance payable by the public authorities which send colonists to Wortel are: For able-bodied persons 7-1/2d. per day, for those not able-bodied 7-1/2d. if they do not require special attention, and 1s. 2-1/2d. if they do. By the admission of the officials of the Wortel Colony the permanent effect of detention upon the character and life of the persons interned is small. This would appear to be proved, indeed, by the return of recommitments, which shows that of the inmates received in 1907 and 1908 over 64 and 56 per cent. respectively were recidivists. It is held that the weak points about the method of treatment are the lightness of the discipline and the shortness of the term of detention. While the maximum term of detention is twelve months, the conditions of discharge are so easy that the average stay is only two or three months, a period far too short to influence permanently the idle and dissolute who form the larger proportion of the inmates. Moreover, many of the latter are confirmed inebriates, needing a special treatment, which is impossible in an institution of this kind.