CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11] — Page 563

PY.

в

Enclosure. 5.

3.

556

i

Your Excellency,

The principal comment I have to make on Mr. Basil Taylor's commentary

ob the suggestion I made to him that the Assistant Harbour Master might be made a Police Officer and given charge, under the C.S.P., of the Water Peli Police, is that in 1894 Caotaio Rumsey suggested to the Retrenchment Committee that the whole of the Water Police should be transferred bodily

Department

to the Harbour, "under the Superintendence of the Harbour Master with the Assistant Harbour Master as Deputy Superintendent".

Therefore

the

A

Captain Rumsey evidently/1id not share the view that the Assistant Harbour Master has not time to do the extra work. Please see C.S.0.2287/94 and 0.0.0. 214 of 1895 and enclosares. I am convinced he would have time. He is already out and about the Harbour and can exercise supervision of the

the

men afloat when he is so. The prosecutions in the Police Court are done by the Inspector in Charze and all that is required is a general oversight.

A

As regards Mr. Basil Taylor's own schere I beg to point out that under

86 of 1899 Harbour Master in whom the regulation of the Waters of the Colom is vested is defined as including "any person deouted or authorised by the Barbour Master to execute any power or perform any duty vested in or impos-. ed ooon him by this Ordinance.

The Harbour Yaster can depute or authorise a Police Constable or other Police Officer just as well as one of his Boarding Officers or other members

orders and

of his Department, to carry out his instructions and it was with the

three

intention that he should avail himself of Police assistance that I instituted the system of the Inspector of Lee Water Police attending on the

.. for his directions.

My point is that there are already enough men and pinnaces in the Harbour Police to do the extra work required by the H.M. What then is the Use of engaging any more men? Both Departments should gain under my schene and I see no reason why with a loyal, and honest determination in both Departments to do their best in the interests of the Service, it should not

work.

There are numerous instances of men serving two Departments already. Police Officers are employed to take charge of Branch Offices of the Harbour,

Department