CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8] — Page 300

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I have the honour to enclose a statement

from Mr May, Captain Superintendent of Police, showing a very

serious position as to the European police force of this Colo-

ny. After close inquiry I endorse everything stated by Mr May

There is no getting over the fact that for men doing the work

of the European police this Colony is unhealthy, and the sum-

mer climate is peculiarly trying. Nor can men be expected to

engage to serve in a Colony where serious outbreaks of plague

seem to have become annual except the inducement of good pay

be held out. I have today before me reports from Taipo-hui

stating that within four weeks ten out of the thirteen Indian

police stationed there and the European Sergeant have been

down with malarial fever. A Sergeant and two Inspectors, in

three other stations in the New Territory have come in to hos-

pital suffering from malarial fever. All those things, and the

extraordinary increase in cost of living are soon known

among the forces from which those men have been recruited,

The Right Honourable

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,M.P.,

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800.

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