SAMOA POLICE
EEDIJCED STEEMTH
RECRUITS WANTED
The Prime Minister (the Bight Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) announced to-day that in accordance with the previously announced decision of the Government to place the Police Force in Western Samoa on a civil basis and to reduce its strength from. 74 to 45, the necessary steps are now being taken to return to 1 New Zealand those members of the military police force who desire to return on the expiration of their period of service next month.
A considerable number, he said, de-' sired to join the new civil force, but to provide for the contemplated establishment of 45 it would be necessary to recruit in New Zealand 17 additional men, and applications for this purpose were now being invited in the Auckland district, which was most conveniently situated to the port of departure of the motor-vessel Maui Poinare.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 55, 8 March 1929, Page 10
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145SAMOA POLICE Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 55, 8 March 1929, Page 10
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