years.
That the only applicants for
admission into the Police are,
seamen, who
are
re inferior necessitated to do so
from not readily finding a ship, and as seamons wages from this port vary from £2.5.0 to £3.0.0 per month, while the present Police pay is only £2, 12.8 (deducting for clothing and superannuation ) rations being provided in both cases; · they with. exceptions prefer their own ca
one ov
a two
calling,
and
after serving two or three months give notice to resign, or wilfully misconduct themselves to incur dismissal.
That the distinction of pay would be productive of dissatisfaction and bad feeling from one class to the other
(when it is so much to be desired that all should work in renity) which would
certainly
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certainly decrease the utility of the Service
The feeling regarding the unhealthing of the island in connection with Police - strong, that when the claim
duties is so
ten
to superannuation was supposed to be - years service, all expressed the great improbability of surviving that time, therefore the offer of pension, inducement to good conduct, altogether
fails.
as an
That the class of men who
from necessity. Service have not regarded drunkenness and other low habits as detracting from their character, and to induce them to
are admitted into the
alter their mode of life to the general propriety required in the Police, it will be necessary to give them more pay in the Blice than they could
obtain as seamen, and,
and further to attach
them
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