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Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1928, Page 5

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KING’S MEDAL.' ' FOR EMPIRE ESSAY COMPETITION (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 7. The. King has honoured the policemen of the Empire Avitli a neAV mark of his interest and appreciation of gold medal, to be/ presented for competition among the men of all the regular police forces. The medal, togeth. er Avith a substantial money prize, wi 11 be awarded for the best essay on a set subject connected Avith police duties, and the subject chosen for the first year’s competition is “ Co-opera-tion between the Police and the Public in the Detection and Prosecution of Crime.” The institution of this ‘ competition is announced in a recent Metropolitan Police Order. It will be open to the serving members of the regular police ofrees within the Empire and its mandated territories.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT. BRITISH REFORM PROPOSALS. (Received this day at noon.) RUGBY, October 5. Sir Kingsley Wood, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, addressing the second off a series of conferences which he is holding with representatives of local authorities to explain the Government’s scheme for rating relief for industry and the reform of local government, said that social services were costing the country over £1,000,000 daily. Many of them were administered by no fewer than six separate organisations, and there was an unanswerable case for greater co-ordination. Referring to the criticism that the reifonn proposals would lessen the interest of the electorate in municipal work, Sir Kingsley said that he believed that the new system of block grants would ensure a greater measure of local responsibility. It would ceitainly make for greater freedom from interference by Whitehall in local administration.