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== 8 September 1911 ==

'''"WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN"''' Whilst the four outlaws were at large the Mr Foster, blacksmith, of Forbes, who ? believed by some people to have made the? armor for the bushrangers, but who had nothing to do with it. (How and where the? Armor was manufactured will shortly be told.) New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier" offered prizes for the best suggestion as to "how bushranging could be stamped out." The first prize was awarded to a suggestion that had a vast amount of common sense to support it. It was, in brief, that the best way to deal with men like Ned Kelly and his confederates was to enlist them in the service of the Government. There is precedent for this in the history of the development of America, when the overland stage proprietors made the most desperate ruffian in the whole region-a desperado named Slade-manager of the worst and most lawless section on the transcontinental route. The suggestion awarded the second prize was almost on the same lines. It concluded:- "When a man shows an inclination for a bushranging life he should be at once offered a bonus to enter the mounted police force, for which such men are presuminently qualified; falling which, he would be kept under strict surveillance, without, however, being worried or harassed, which might have the opposite effect to that intended."

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