Non-Japanese firms here are facing hard times in meeting Japanese com-to a value of 13.286000.. This is a very conservative estimate, as some of the goods coming from the Island Empire underwent a change of label in Shang-bai as of British or American origin for distribution in free Kuangtung. Their main attraction is cheapness, The native police which the government is introducing in the Northern Territory of Australia are no novelty in Queensland. They have served for many years at settlements on the mainland and on the Torres Straits islands. In khaki uniforms, though barefooted, they wear broadbrimmed hats turned up at the side in true Australian police fashion and they are second only in importance to those dignitaries who on ceremonial occasions turn up in moleskin trousers and maroon jerseys on which is inscribed the magic word "Councillor" They are able to keep order because they are all of good type and they are selected for their prestige within the community.
Among the Torres Straits islanders—a race distinct from the Australian aborigine—there are two policemen in each of the well-kept villages. To be a policeman is a great mark of honour and this is cherished not only for the clothes that go with the appointment. The native police are astoundingly conscientious. One, at Cowal Creek, near the tip of Cape York Peninsula, where aborigines are conducting the only native settlement in Australia, was so conscience-stricken at having committed a breach of the code that he considered he was no longer worthy of remaining on the force. Going to the village police station he charged himself, found himself guilty, took off his uniform and promptly delivered it to the Prorector at Thursday Island.
The constable at one isle is strikingly undersized and a member of the party under the Minister for Home Affairs when visiting there was surprised that he had been able to arrest a powerful islander who was then in jail.
"How did you do it?" he asked.
"Oh," said the constable, "it's simple. When I have to arrest someone I go up to him say 'Follow me in King George's name' and when I get to the jail there he is behind me."
The Minister for Home Affairs says that the native constabulary is a definite asset and that there is no intention of eliminating it.
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