FIRST AID AND AUTHORITY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 29 May 1914, Page 7

FIRST AID AND AUTHORITY.

(To the Editor.) Sir.— On Monday, May ISth. tirey Ptrect was tin- perm , ■>( an anident which wa.i the result of a eollirion lietwoi'n :i cycli.-t and a couple "i «lojrs. and whxhV.-iiltcd in t!u> ejvlyt beiii" somewhat badly injured, llt'injr one of the. few people in the vicinity at the time .1 hastened to the young man's as sistanee, and helped carry h:m tn a near-by house, after which 1 vainl) endeavoured to j_'et medical a*-i3-tunco. A constable arriviM upon the swnp shortly aftorwanl-. and uhrn 1 asked wiiat wn.-< tv lio done lio informed nil , that il «a= "nut hia beat"'. Ho tiien [irix-eeilcd calmly Vie- stn-rt lo intercept cnripliililc the second, and nil the Kilter lii-ing informed (if what. had liii|i)n-nff|. he billed himself about petting najneri, addriK-cs. <-tc! I taie it that in tlu , event of i-eri.ui.- oru-e----qupuciM t,i tin- wi-iim. tu he iil.lo to work "fr .tv inf,iriiKiti..n recc;ved." All tliis. mind you, Mr Wit.ir. lie-fore ins much H- even nndciivoiirinp t> iiwertain the cqudition of the injured one. 1 mir-frist-.i a taxi to hurry him t,i the ll.v-pi till, -but that could nut he done without a permit from that iruuit/.ition." so saitl the constable! 'Hip ryelist's injuric? iMiraiUted nf n lirokrn jaw. tonjrue cut. in two, and head. face. slioiildi>r« and amirt severely cut and bruised, lie «ai losing' a liercc amount of blood. The action of the police w<l-<. 1 > mv mind, a brutal display of inflexible authority, which has its headquarter* in Wolliiifrton. 1 .hardly think the police are loss considerate, ilmn the avcrapo (.■rdina-ry citizen, hut the trouble, to my mind, i.- tliat they are the victims of hidebound authorfty. 1 niijrht mention that tliis is fun third occasion during the latit four week* that 1 have witnessed cycle accidents, eaiu-ed through dov;r in our streets. The iiiimucr of do'.'s ill Auckland is now lx'cominjr a menace, and tlie sooner the <'ity Fatliere taie some action by way of exterminat ing them the better. -[ am. etc. rillUl , ENOIATO.