PRIVATE GUARDS
BUBGIiARS IN LONDON
LONDON, Oct. 26
A big private organisation of uniformed nightwutehmcn is being formed to guard private property against burglars, bandits, tires and other dangers, states the News-Chronicle. The company, which has a capital of £IOO,OOO, will be known as the Night Watch Patrol, Limited. The patrols will be recruited from pensioned poliyemen and ex-servicemen, and will be officered by former Scotland Yard men. They will operate the "beat” system. Each watchman will be equipped with an electric torch and a whistle, and will be accompanied byt a police trained Alsatian dog. Government Departments, * banks, business houses, and private residents are being invited to subscribe to the service, which eventually will embrace the whole country.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 5 November 1934, Page 7
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