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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5317, 11 April 1878, Page 2

It has been suggested to, us, and the idea seems a good one, that in view of the many accidents which have taken place on the wharf or in its vicinity, a water police should be established, whose duty it should be especially to watch the wharf and its approaches, in order to render assistance in the event of casualties occurring.' A couple of watchmen or two constables would probably be quite a sufficient force for the purpose, and they might be, the means of preventing many serious occurrences, aud even the loss of life in not a few instances. From time to time we have heard lately of person's having fallen from the wharf or 1 breastwork aud been drowned, whose lives might have been saved perhaps had' there been a look-out kept. If we remember rightly, there is a water police force at .Auckland and Dunedin; but at Wellington, the capital of the colony, there is, no such provision. It has also been pointed out that if a line of posts and chains were put up along the breastwork fronting Custom House-quay, it might be the means of preventing’ people travelling along that thoroughfare, at night from missing their way and falling into the water, a result which there is too much’reason to fear has occurred in more than one instance lately.