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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20272, 14 August 1937, Page 11

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SHIPMENTS OF MEAT. I TO THE UNITED KINGDOM. 3 [ WELLINGTON, Saturday. _ I The New Zealand Meat Producers’ f j Board is advised by cable from its j London office that the shipments from , I Australia, South America and South , Africa, to the United Kingdom durj ing July, were as follows: Australia. Carcases mutton, ' 99,247; carcases lamb, 159,794; quar--1 ters beef (frozen), 245,882; quarters *! beef (chilled), 50,919. [ I South America.—Carcases mutton, I 6800; carcases lamb, 100,907; quarters * 1 beef (frozen), 1827; quarters beef M (chilled), 415,098. ' South Africa (including Southern I I Rhodesia)—Quarters beef (chilled), ; l 11,035. 5 . New Zealand.—Carcases mutton. >1242,012; carcases lamb, 1,160,123; * quarters beef (frozen), 31,425; quarl tcrs beef (chilled), 30,821. : POLICE DISPLACE CHIEFS. f MAINTENANCE OF ORDER. NEED FOR CIRCUMSPECTION. Inability of native chiefs to main--1 tain law and order in thoir kraals has resulted in considerable of their I authority being taken over by the • South African police, writes the Dur- ' , ban correspondent of the Christian » ' Science Monitor. i The fact was emphasised at a sit- • ting of the Police Commission at i! Estcourt (Natal) when W. W. Estelair ■ ' Moor, appearing on behalf of the i Farmers’ Associations, spoke of the - relations between the police and the > natives. “ The authority of the tribal chiefs ) and heads of kraals is becoming ) weaker,’’ he said, “and is being sup- - planted by that of the police. “ It is probably not an overstatement to say that to-day the principal link and most obvious one between the rank and file of the native population and the Government and Legislature is the policeman. If he is to exercise his authority satisfactorily to the natives he must know as much of them as those whom he is succeeding as an instrument of government and for the purpose of maintaining law and order.” Mr Estelair Mnn r urged that police intended for service in rural areas should be chosen with the greatest