"T am glad to see Mr. A. L. Anderson, your late Assistant Commissioner here to-night, as it gives me the opportunity of thanking him in person on behalf of the Council and the community for the valuable and constructive work he did in founding the Specials in May, 1018, the force under his charge then consisting of 110 men. They were of great assistance to the foreign branch of the Regular Police at a time when it was depleted owing to the War. It must be a matter of satisfaction to Mr. Anderson to see in this Reserve Force a permanent result of his labours in the public interests.
"T am glad to know your present strength 1s about 160 men and that recruits are still coming in. understand that with the exception of Saturdays and Sundays a squad is out every croning on petro] of some point in the Settlement. Some of you may feel that a couple of hours' patrolling, often with little to show for it, becomes irksome, but you must remember the valuable moral effect it produces keeping you in training for emergencies.""
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.