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wards be reduced in number, or withdrawn, accord- 
ing to the state of the district. # 
Under any circumstances a police is necessary in 
all the country districts, nor do I think on the whole, 
many more policemen would be required than there 
are at out-stations at present. They would only 
have to be quartered at the native establishments. 
Thirdly. It would be absolutely requisite to have 
experienced and proper persons in charge of each of 
the locations ; as far as practicable, it would un- 
doubtedly be the most desirable to have these es- 
tablishments under missionaries. In other cases 
they might be confided to the protectors of the Abo- 
rigines, and to the resident or police magistrates. 
All officers having such charge should be deemed 
ex-officio to be protectors, and as many should be 
in the commission of the peace as possible. 
Many other necessary and salutary regulations, 
would naturally occur in so comprehensive a scheme, 
but as these belong more to the detail of the system, 
* ‘ 1 It is absolutely necessary, for the cause of humanity and 
good order, that such force should exist ; for as long as distant 
settlers are left unprotected, and are compelled to take care of and 
avenge themselves, so long must great barbarities necessarily 
be committed, and the only way to prevent great crimes on the 
part of the natives, and massacres of these poor creatures, as the 
punishment of such crimes, is to check and punish their excesses 
in their infancy ; it is only after becoming emboldened by fre- 
quent petty successes that they have hitherto committed those 
crimes, which have drawn down so fearful a vengeance upon 
them.” — Grey, vol ii. p. 3 79- 
