COST OF POLICE.
The police estimates for 1908-9 showed a sum of £133,021 for salaries and expenses. Of this total the h«ad office absorbs £2,494. The nine district inspectors account for £3,720, six sub-inspectors £1,750, four station sergeants and one ser-geant-major £1,204, 78 sergeants £12,652, 625 constables £94,717, four chief detectives £1,204, 34 detectives ££7,117, §lO probationers £1,095, native constables £582, 21 district constables £l,lBO, four matrons £4lO, four surgeons £4OO. Based on the population of 977.215, the proportion of police to population in New Zealand is one to 1,331, at a cost per inhabitant of against 4s s£d in Victoria, 5s lOd New South Wales, 4s South Australia, 7s Id Queensland, 9s 4d West Australia, and 3s lOd Tasmania.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3163, 14 April 1909, Page 4
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120COST OF POLICE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3163, 14 April 1909, Page 4
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