RHODESIAN POLICE
PATROLS AMONG' NATIVES After spending 13 years with the British South African Police in Southern Rhodesia. Mr. J. H. Hodditiott, formerly of Taranaki, arrived at Auckland by the Rotorua from England, to spend part of his leave in New Zealand. Mr. Hoddinott, who was accompanied by his wife, said he was the only New Zealander engaged in such work in Southern Rhodesia, although there were a number ol New Zealanders doing other kinds ol i work in the country.
Mr. Hoddinott's work carries him most of all among the natives. It includes much patrol work into very remote regions, and Mr. Hoddinott | mentioned a 1500-miles patrol which he had covered mostly by foot. The (police force was then not mechanised I as it is now, and animal transport was I not practicable for the whole distance, because Mr. Hoddinott had to ! pass through areas where the tsetse fly was too prevalent for the safety of horses. An indication of the variety of the Rhodesian policeman's life, said Mr. Hoddinott, was the fact that when on patrol he had to act also as a public health officer. During this particular patrol he had vaccinated no fewer I than 16,000 natives against smallpox.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19758, 12 October 1938, Page 8
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203RHODESIAN POLICE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19758, 12 October 1938, Page 8
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