Condensed Correspondence.
'•'Amused" refers to the measures adopted by the police in order to detect sly grog-selling in the King Country, and says they go beyond the steps taken by private detectives to collect evidence which recently called forth some drastic remarks from Mr Justice Conolly. Our correspondent says: "To be a successful detective one must be either a good actor or a sneak, whether he be private or police, and it is held by the majority of Judges in New Zealand that private detectives are as necessary as police. What becomes of the majority of men who retire on pension from the greatest detective service in the world? I mean Scotland Yard. They take on private work, and so become private detectives."
Mr John Moss writes on the subject of the Costley Home and the local bodies, but his letter is chiefly occupied with personal matters. He says: "I have every confidence that the local Commission will, re Costley's Home, be satisfied with nothing short of a public inquiry by a Royal Commission."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 173, 22 July 1903, Page 2
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