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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 76, 5 December 1885, Page 2

The Defence Minister hat recently issued a^ircular.to the polioe, in whiqh ho direots the attention of members of the force to the fact that the prevention jof orime is their first and most important duty, and pointing ont that premotfotn will depend as muoh on emdienoy, smartness, tact aad special serviced, more than upon length of servioe and good conduct alone. The Hon Me Ballance also states thai there isreasoa to believe that illioit distillation and *mugglinjc are extensively earned ea, aj well as otb.er breaohes of the Customs laws, te the injury of the revenue, aad adds that detection; of such eases will be r -garded as special service of a meritorious character, but the members of the force are not, lor the sake, of any peoumary or personal advantage, to forget that their primary duty is. to prevent orime, and the/ace not to sub. trdinate this consideration to any other. — Lyttelton Tunas. . "- :.-j