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In the official report of a burglary committed on the 29th of August the Governor made a minute calling for the details of the night duties of the Police Force, and at the end of the following month (September) he referred the information so obtained together with all the records in the possession of the Government respecting Crime, Police, Deportation, Hogging, Prison Discipline, to a Committee of the Legislative Cormeil for their careful investigation and report. This Committee held some

meetings and

took some evidence before the public

meeting (on

the same se

Ye.

subject) of the 7th of October, but as the public records and

documents placed by the Government at

their disposal

were numerous,

and as the

evidence had to be printed, they did not place the result of their investigation in the Governors hands until the 11th of February 1879. – the printed copies

not being ready for transmission to the Secretary of State tell early in March, so that the Governor did not forward the Report with his observations, to the Secretary of State until the 7th March 1879. and it was not tell the following month that the Governor

was

A

able to send to Sir ellichael Kick's Beach

mendations

further report on certain recomme:

of the Committee respecting the operation of the Deportation Ordinances.

3.

The fact that this Committee of the Legislative Connoil, presided over by the.. Senior Police ollagistrate, M. May, had commenced investigating the very question.

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