16.
18.
141
Cost of one beal for day diety
with avoning,
Cost live
vars, and,
& fillings
£ .204 On 0.
boot of tur boots for night duly 1 24 36.0-0.
with ears and
6 fillings . Building boat station,..
I also respectfully suggest that as a number of junks have been lobbed when lying off the different villages dound
the island (see
dece every
a.
attached list ) that
week (weather permitting) superior officer with a sufficient free
shall go
Round the island, and
communicate with the Tepo at each
place,
in order to visit. any suspicious
there. The
present Police
beats lying
book is sufficiently large for this purpose,
and the Requidite force
one
Can
be obtained
by sending only one beat out in each night
duty Eelief.
(Signed) Charles May : Superintendent of Police -
The regular duties of the existing
Water Police
are
exclusively night duties,
and these with the incidental.
day duties,
such as the service of process, making
1, are more
enquiries, collecting evidence, &c., than sufficient for their full occupation.
It may
be observed that
among
the
cases of crime previenely detailed, eight
committed during
the hours in which
were
the present Water Police were not engaged
on
general duty, and that six of the x- eight were committed in
the
evening.
In addition to the above proposals it
will be requisite that an European
reserve:
Sergeant or Constable be on resone. the boat-station during the
duly at day, so that
day,
in case of information laid there, prompt be taken. A man for this
measures may
duty.
can
Station.
be withdrawn from the Control
[ Signed] C. B. Hillier. Offy Chief Mag.