Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council of South Australia, appointed to inquire into, and report upon the Conduct of the Police Force; together with Minutes of Evidence and Appendix
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1856.
Foolscap folio, vi, 20, xxxiv pages.
Disbound (four small holes in the inner margins where stab-sewn when bound); a few leading edges a little discoloured; a fine copy.
SA Parliamentary Paper 171 of 1856; the inquiry stemmed from the demotion from Commissioner to Inspector, in November 1853, of Alexander Tolmer, 'partly from the disorganization of the police force as a result of his long absences on escort duty and partly from his character' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). The replacement Commissioner, Major Peter Warburton of exploration fame, whose evidence forms the bulk of this report, was himself dismissed from the position in 1867.
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