POLICE PROTECTION FOR WEST HARBOR.

Evening Star, Issue 8715, 6 January 1892, Page 1

POLICE PROTECTION FOR WEST HARBOR.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sib, —It seems as though the residents of the Borough of West Harbor are, for their sin in daring to elect a tried and respectable representative in Parliament instead of a carpet-bagger (whose undoubted chief aim was the L 240 honorarium, if he could getit), to be left entirely without police protection, for from Pelichet Bay to Port Chalmers there is not such a thing as a police constable ever to be seen, except on very rare occasions—when a mounted trooper appears with a small sheaf of summonses for those poor unfortunates who happen to have a cow or a horse adrift, for which they get fined from la 6d to 2s fid, not more than enough to pay the trooper’s horse feed. But the damage to property, the plundering of gardens, etc., etc., by the larrikin element ic the borough is seemingly not worth notice now. It is well known that last year many of the gardens iu the borough were almost denuded of their fruit by these young night prowlers; and I should not think the inhabitants of the district would be asking too much of the People’s Ministry, as they call themselves, for a visit from a trooper down here, say, two or three times a week, so that the taxpayers might feel they were getting some little protection for their money; for, as the fruit season is just setting in, I am certain their depredations of last summer will ba repeated. They have, indeed, commenced already, and some serious accident may befall some of these juvenile orchard-robbers if they are caught; for people will not submit to be robbed quietly and have their trees destroyed by a set of young scamps, who glory in their shame, and whose parents seldom or ever correct them in their evil ways.—l am, etc., West Harbor. West Harbor, January 5,