THE LESSON POLICE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8800, 30 April 1907, Page 1

THE LESSON POLICE.

A writer In th® London Magaain® puis at the enormous figure of £3,000,C00 the cost of the Metro■politaa Police Fore®. There ara iV,313 members of this force, with salaries from £BOO (chief constables) to £56 10s Td, the beginning salary of 1459 constables. Moreover, chief inspectors at Buckingham Palace and Marlborough House gai «a much as £33 h year for clothing allowance, besides which there fcpe boot allowances—B>£d a week; for Inspectors and fid a week for sergeants and coai stables, and most ULeral allowances. Special duty police get special allowances, from 'ls to 63s fid a week, though this not all coma out of the taxpayer?,'’ pockets, hut la paid by the people Employing them. The sum, of £330 was paid last year also fon " funeral expenses of polio® offleot-'j. A great many more thougo in the ereoton and mainteiymc® of police stations, the upkeep "of police courts, and aerrices of 'interpreters and doctors, who are i oFten “ required to give teoknlcal ! oridenco. Gaolers, ushers and clerks about the police courts cost £30,000 a year. The flue horses kept by the Metropolitan Police as mounts and for other purposes, and ( the police vans and carts cost nearly Soifier“““'63o,ooo. For every four policeman patrolling the street* by day there are six at night (10 p.m. to 8 a.m.) No wonder that police lanterns, and keeping them in order, cost nearly £SOO a year. London, it mnst bo clearly stated in this case, means an area of 639 square miles—the whole area supervised by the Metropolitan Polio© Force. The dockyards, not only, at Woolwich, but at Portsmouth, Devonport, and Chatham, are under their care. Th® ratepayer does not pay for the police who guard the big public buildings. To mind the i British Museum tho Treasury pay* nearly £4OOO ffor tho Natural History Museum over £3000; for the Houses of nearly £10,000; for I Hyde Park, £?458. On tho other lhand, certain railway companies \ hanks, factories, etc., employ the ! Metropolitan Police for permanently minding their premises, paying therefor £14,000 a year. | These £3,000,000, however, do not seem much for safeguarding fully £50,000,000 worth of property. And if the public were not so careless about its umbrellas and other belongings the police bill of the metropolis might even be less. IMPET ’MAY APPL3 v. PILLS. ; Some people are so constituted that frequently they have to resort to medicines, and "until tho introduction of Impey’s May Apple there ■seemed no alternative but to take pills. Th* latter ofttimea possess an almost insoluble coating, thus rendering them non-effective. If the coating is inferior atmospheric changes affect the pills. It is common to find boxes oa. exhibition in i the shop window exposed to the sun, i or kept in the damp of a bulk storeroom. Pills or tablets must deteriorate under such conditions. This is whore Impey’s May Apple stands pro-e»inent. Being a liquid medicine, sealed in bottles, its virtue is in no way Impaired by tho changes of country or climate. Impey’s May Apple ioiprompt, safe and sure. Can be obtained from all chemists and storekeepers or post free from Sharlan« ami Co., Ltd., Wellington; Ss 6d ps- Vcttle. • . bur ilfi.::ners - areVow 'ready to receive your order?. They are prepared to show you every®-ir.g that is new, fresh and bo coining. Consult them about your Easter Hat at HoEldownoy’s Stores, Marton, Hunterrille and Taihape,