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Book typeset in lOV2 on 12 point Century Roman. Display type in 11 point Geneva Light and 20 point Century Bold. New Zealand Police Museum. Ferrymead, near Christchurch, , police station and lockup next to hotel.
Canterbury Museum. Alexander Turnbull Library. Soldiers constructing the road through the forest from Drury to the Waikato, Auckland Institute and Museum. Nelson Provincial Museum. South Canterbury Historical Museum. Contemporary sketches of one of the Maungatapu murders, Nelson Province, Taranaki Museum.
Shallcrass family, Nelson. Murray Strange. Hauhau prisoners aboard prison hulk, Wellington Harbour, early From 1 October the entire machinery of policing, its personnel, buildings and equipment, was transferred to the new provincial governments, which were quick to discover that the policing function was the greatest single financial drain upon the resources of their devolved state organisations.
It was at the Superintendency level, therefore, that for almost quarter of a century the key policy decisions with regard to policing were made. Because the Superintendent and his executive often lacked ready access to the military, a streamlined regional coercive, reactive response system had of necessity to be shaped in order to cope with potential grave problems of order.
