CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12] — Page 596

time has arrived at which the Adjutaney

of the Police should be abolished and the

Office of

Assistant Seeperintendent of Police

substituted for

2.

il.

Major Dempster

appointed Adjutant of Police

Cons

ne a

594

a

portion of hie

Assistant Army Paymonter,

so that only

time is at the disposal of

the Colony.

The

appointmen

ointment has not --

been altogether

́altogether a success, chief result

having been to impart to the Police that

tone so una

ih

temporary

and

provisional

measure in

18844, on

a

salary of

One thousand $1,200.

and two hundred dollars a

"year;

with

Two hundred and eighty eight dollars - $288. for conveyance, in addition to which,

in the

though it was not contemplated original arrangement, he has received

quar

fuel,

and light. It is the

Assistant

quasi- military

unanimously

deprecated

by

all the

merous

Boards

during

the

and Commissions that have di

last twenty years enquired into the

.

working of the Force . The Captain - Superintendent has no Deputy to mo

relieve him,

certain

-occasionally, of contin

Office duties, such as the trying of

and is thus unduly kept!

defaulters,

at