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3.

before

In bringing this question

me the Captain Superintendent

added that John Freeman's character

roll counts for

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ten

years

service

"very good". Pout on looking through the Police defaulters' Book I found eight offences recorded against Freeman one

being

an

offence described as "gross neglect

ou ca

of duty," and on

calling for the

details the Captain Superintendent

stated that it was a case in

which &C. Freeman being

charge of a

in

Police Station was

bound to have sent the Indian

Constables on

duty at 10 8. M., _

but that, at midnight, the Inspector of the district having

occasion to arrest a man,

no Constables on

on

found

night duty, and

proceeding to the Police Station be found Freeman and the Indians (who ought to have been

on

duty in their beds.

This incident occurred

4.

in the middle

of

the year 1877,

then

and though Freeman was Fined $ 6, he had again to be fined ($0) in the following mouth "for being asleep on duty? Pout as I have long been the thorough performance of the

"

of opinion

that

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