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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 87, 6 January 1908, Page 8

. ■ 9.. Spacial polico protection and investigation ire, needed in tho. M.iitai Valloy, whoro sheopitealing, poaching, and thefts troui camps lave beon very common .for months (according to tho Nelson. "Mail"). It is underitood that Mr. AVarnock, tho lesseo of tho iiaitai Run, is about 400 »shcep short this 'ear, and of this loss at least 250 can bo' ccounted for only ,by tho presumption that lie.animals have.been made away with illo;all.v. Broaches of tho game laws, arc porictrated quite openly, while thefts .from amps have boon quite common. One wliare ras cleaned out of nearly everything-—blan-;ets, cutlory, bottled . beer, etc.... Other :amps havo also been visited by.thieves poriidicall.v, till it is now understood that only ho stoutost bolts, bars and locks, and fro|uent visits will ensure a measure of. imminity from raids. There seems to be a land of brigands who make the Maitni Valley lie. scone of tbnir practices, and the sooner lioy are dispersed tile better. A littlo polico .ctivity up tho Valloy would be of far nioro 'alue than tho detection of small boys in a ecludod batjjiiip pool