RARATONGAN AFFAIRS.
POLICE REFORM BADLY NEEDED.
AUCKLAND, February 8. A RiratoDg* paper prints the speech by Major Gudgeon, the British Resident there. Major Gudgeon, addressing the people of the island, sab! :—" Your laws are oppressive and bad. Woman are followed about and annoyed by the police, charged with offences, bullied into confessions, and money extorted from them. I am told that the Mdngaia police smell the breath of those who land there to ascmaia if the people had been drinking spirits. If these tales ».re true, and I have no reason to doubt i hem, itiaa teauiJal ,1.0 the whole civilised world. The tirne has come when lav a enacted during the 1.-ark Ages mu3t bo 6et aside."
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Evening Star, Issue 10851, 8 February 1899, Page 2
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118RARATONGAN AFFAIRS. Evening Star, Issue 10851, 8 February 1899, Page 2
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