AUSTRALIAN NEWS
VARIOUS INTERESTING ITEMS. (Reed 8.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr Black, referring to Mr Wonal's statement, declared that he did not believe there was any systematic bribery among the police, who stood as high in public estimation as any force in the world. Suspicion, however, was p<- i.utLle and he would fuHy investigate. Mr Worral explains f .hat he did not intend to impugn the integrity of the Sydney police, which he considered equal to any in the world. What he advocated was the revoking of a portion of the Police Act, making brothels illegal, because such provision had tbe effect of increasing veneral diseases, and exposing the police to temptations from which they should bo protected. The annual report of the Aborigines Protection Board shows a steady docrease of blacks in New South Wales. Pull 'Woods now total 1730, a decrease of 131; half-castes, 5049, a decrease of five.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 3 September 1915, Page 7
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152AUSTRALIAN NEWS Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 3 September 1915, Page 7
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