CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9] — Page 230

2.

and

the

frevention of Crime

in this Colony-

2.. Your Lordship will observa

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that this Commission appointed by my Predecesor in December, 1871, and that they reported to me in

3..

reaso

Repert

me in July 1872.. I cannot offer a better for fortparing my

m

this document than

by quoting the words of the Page 4. Commissioners" "the subject's

"which the Commission have

required

b

report have

"presented in

instances

many

"an aspect of unusual difficulty, "the evidence both doementary

" and oral having been of a

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"perplexingly conflicting nature

"In foils of

"holds

the

mat vital

"importance. This statement

good even in regard " to Witnesses who from their "forition and

experience

had

"the opportunities of arriving at

'

"a correct conclusion." –

4.

In the following

Sags 4 paragraph- the Commission

concur with the opinion

on

opinion expressed

the high authority of Sir Edmund Boruty, that "froviding a Police for Stong sing "is, I take it, a choice of evils "auch of inefficiency."-

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