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4. The results of the various examinations held, by your sanction, throughout the year, were as follows:
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The Hon. Mr. F. J. BADELEY,
Captain Superintendent of Police.
ARTHUR W. GRANT, B.A. (Canterbury),
Master in Charge.
Appendix B.
Report of the Assistant Superintendent of Police on the New Territories for 1906.
1. The state of the Territory in 1906 has been quiet and orderly. The greater part of the robberies during the year were reported from the direction of Mirs Bay, and appear to have been perpetrated by bad characters frequenting the Chinese Territory on the East Coast of the Bay. The land border is now fairly well protected, and only one robbery was reported along it the Yau Fu, Ma Tak Shan, who has since been promoted to a post in Heung Shan, and the other Chinese Officials have rendered active assistance in putting down border crimes. Three murders took place during the year-at Tai Po, on Ping Chau Island and on the Kowloon Hills in the first case three men were captured by Indian Police near the border and eventually executed.
2. Larcenies and assaults were not frequent, and the use of illicit opium was as usual responsible for most arrests, while the practice of fishing with dynamite is still common and difficult to prevent.
3. The health of the Police has been good throughout the year, and there is in this respect no fault to be found with any Station except Au Tau and Sai Kung which have
suffered from fever as before.
4. The Railway work has been in progress during most of the year and has provided work and wages for a large number of men: a few extra police were detailed for railway work, but the conduct of the workmen has so far been exemplary.
5. The general prosperity of the Territory suffered a set back from the typhoon of September 18th, which caused serious loss of life and property, but it does not appear that any widespread distress was caused thereby. Nor was any difficulty experienced in collect- ing most of the Crown Rent, though the Sheung Shui district, which enjoys an unfortunate proximity to the gambling facilities of Sham Chun, has paid slowly, and the landowners living in Chinese Territory have utilised to the full their power of passive resistance. The native paths in the valleys have deteriorated considerably, especially owing to the September rains, and the general traffic and police patrols have suffered thereby. However, much of the inconvenience caused will cease with the construction of the Government road from the Sha Tau Kok to Ping Shan and Un Long.
G. N. ORME,
Assistant Superintendent of Police.