The jail was a direct import from Australia’s convict system. This is often forgotten, partly because considerable effort was ...

New Zealand's first jail was a simple affair, just a symmetrical four-roomed log building, built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay ...

Partly this is because considerable effort was put into distancing New Zealand from the convict“taint” of Australia's penal colonies. Australian designs There is further confusion over the ...

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Partly this is because considerable effort was put into distancing New Zealand from the convict "taint" of Australia's penal colonies. There is further confusion over the jail's designer.

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Partly this is because considerable effort was put into distancing New Zealand from the convict “taint” of Australia’s penal colonies. But the Okiato jail design wasn’t one of Mason’s.