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Excerpt from The Trooper Police of Australia: A Record of Mounted Police Work in the Commonwealth From the Earliest Days of Settlement to the Present Time N offering this book to the consideration of the public, I venture to claim that its matter is its own justifica tion. While there are many volumes devoted to various periods of Australian history, and in part touching upon the trooper police, there has been no attempt to give a comprehensive account of police administrative work during the growth of the Commonwealth. I have long felt that such a record was worthy of being written, as it deals with a very notable side of Colonial development, and to achieve this result has been my purpose in the present book. At the same time, I am conscious that the manner in which it is presented may require some deprecation from the author. The record is not one of a corporate regiment, such as the Royal N orth-west Mounted Police of Canada it is concerned with the police services of six separate States, and consequently it has been impossible to avoid a certain amount of overlapping. Furthermore, some difficulty has been experienced in obtaining material relating to the early years of one or two forces. A great deal of valuable his torical matter was destroyed in the past, and this can never be replaced. It is only from contemporary sources that one is able at all to fill in the picture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.