CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10] — Page 62

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punishment

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on

I was

Those daring

a...

to retum. -system very similar

to this which gave comparative seemity to the Colony during the administration of the Goverment by Sir Richard

Graves Mac Donnell, and I must

다

confef

that it

with the

very

greatest relndance that in deference

opinion of the Attorney

to the

General I

was

compelled to depart

from it. I trust, however, that the

good results then obtained by the infliction of corporal punishment, and the insecurity which has prevailed since its discontinuance, will weigh with Your Lordship when again giving to the subject that omsideration which

ayour despatch of the 18th

1891, No 63,

&

gave

617.

of May

reason to anticipate.

In resped to the Memorial

which is now transmitted I do not

purpose detaining Your Lordship by

amy very lengthing remarkts. At the

same time, however, I cannot but observe that it is strangely, deficient

in candour, inasmuch as it carefully

suppresses all that would extenuate, rebut, whilst it makes

explain or rebut, assertions which are Known to be entirely

q.

perfectly well

mo

orrect.

Ihno it makes no allusion to the difficulties necessarily attendant upon Police administration in

a)

Colony situated as this, within rifle