No. 251.
20512
het 2 OCT 19
323
Government House,
Sonetore, 1st September, 1899
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Sir,
belosure Faugust
$1899 b
I have the honour to forward for your information a minute by the Captain Superintendent of Police on the Police requirements of the New Territory, and his estimate of the expenditure for 1900 which reaches the large figure of $146,093.20.
2. Having regard to the state of the district down to the date of our occupation, especially the prevalence of armed gang robberies, and piratical descents upon the villages on the littoral, I am of opinion that for the present a considerable force will be necessary until the armed attacks upon property have been controlled. But while the stations now being built must be occupied, and for the present it would be unsafe to estimate for a smaller number of men than set down by the Captain Superintendent of Police, it is not my intention that the stations shall be kept at their full strength except the necessity for so large a force be demonstrated.
The Right Honourable
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
&C.
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8cC.
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