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Return showing the Strength and Distribution of the New Zealand Constabulary (Police Branch) on the 31st March, 1881.

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Stations, Inspectors. District Clerks. SergeantsMajor. Sergeants. Constables. Detectives. District Constables. Total. Nokth Island. Auckland, — Auckland Cambridge Coromandel Darga-ville Devonport Freeman's Bay ... Grahamstown Hamilton East ... Hamilt on West ... Helensville BoManga Kawakawa Maketu Mangawai Mercer Mercury Bay Mongoimi Ngaruawahia Newton Ohincmutu Onelmnga Opotiki Otahuhu Paeroa Parnell Papakura Port Albert B aglan Russell Tairua Tauran ga 'Je Awamutu Te Kopuru Waiutu Wangaroi ... Warkworth Wliakatane Whangaroa Waterford I 7 2() 2 36 2 2 I 1 2 I I 1 1 3 I 7 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I I I 1 I 3 1 4 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 9^* Wellington,— Wellington Molesworth Street Wewtown Lower Hutt Featherston Carterton Masterton Whareama Porirua 1 '5 7 1 4 3 1 5 23 1 1 2 3i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 I 1 1 Wanganui, — Wanganui Marton Bull's Feilding Palmerston North Foxton Otaki New Plymouth ... Waitara Normanby Hawera Manutahi Carlyle Wayerley 1 6 32 4i 1 i 6 1 9 1 ... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 S 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 4 29 8 1 22 I Hawke's Bay, — Napier Taradale CliTe Hastings Waipawa Kopua Woodville Porangahau Port Ahuriri Wairoa Gisborne Tolago Bay. Awanui ie _ ... 1 2 1 4 I 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 I 1 S 1 2 2O I 2 27 S * District constables not in* :luded in total.