POLICE PROTECTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1307, 24 January 1868, Page 4

POLICE PROTECTION.

To the Editor of the Hekald. Sir, —Please allow an admirer of your valuable paper the usual privilege of leaking some public remarks. I lire, fir, in the neighbourhood of Freeman's 13ay —Adelaiie-otreet, so-called —though what Constitutes a street perbap3 tho municipal Board can tell best ; but I will Wriivo the at'-to of tho street, although C' rtainlj no hr.r.or to tho lute viorthv queen named after; but what I have to complain of is danger to life and limb and property from a set of lawless, vagabond boys, whose parents seem to hold out a premium for vagabondage by allowing Mum to Tun wild at all hour?* Sundays ond all times, nearly up till midnight, unci putting law and authority at defiance. Sir, on Sunday morning last, r turning from chapel,. one of our windows was broken — a eomm-in thing in tho fruit season, for they aro not particular as to the size of their missiles, and a blow on the cranium cftea awakens cur sense of feeling. I kinking to hare a view whore the stones came from,]l trimmed tho top of a peach tree, sacrificing ull tho fruit to savs the gla6?. .One of thes9 young vagabonds met my boy and told him that as X had foiled them ia getting peaches, I might look out that I did not get all my window.? broken. I have cut down an aople and pear tree urid sacrificed all to save our windows. I am out very f arly, and they take every opportunity to persecute my boy and give annoyance. Sir, X appealed to one of the police and ho told me it was utterly impossible to attend to the unaristocratic locality of Freeman's Bay—free indeed for liberty and riot on account of the reduction in the Staff of constables. Sir, methinks it would be woll for all settlers to get sworn in as special constables to protect their own hearths and homes; or perhaps Mr. Editor you tr.ay bs kind enough to bitggnstPometiling in tliis extremity. Sir, pray pardon this trespass.—l am, &c., " "VV. "Westwood, l<atopayer. [We think that U3 the western side of tho city and suburbs pay.a large proportion of tho rates and ta::e3, that they are entitled (o a fair shiiro of the services of the pcJieo.fo.rcs3.' It i 3 not in lounging up and down Queon and Hobi'on-elroeti that the policeman ig so ni'K'h needed as iu the outskirts of the town, j ED.IT.Z.H.] "• *