A POLICE COUP.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 285, 2 December 1925, Page 6

A POLICE COUP.

MINERS' VfRIKE. HOW THE LEADERS ARRESTED, E ' (ByTe.esra P h.- S p eclalto „ Stari>) ; WELLINGTON Superintendent Mcllvenev's .- ment as Commissioner of P_;„ PP °. mt ' opportunity of mentioning \ is" _ unwmteu piece of history VH_ erto ot the miners' leaders &*M** were concerned in the «~.2„ . h(1 at Huntly. Pukemiro anl -E, *? k « The new commissioner was ffi, ._. V 1917 to investigate th. _ Uctcd « reached a point when &S3&* arrest of the miners' leaders™, Z-T on. Complete secrecy had to b e 1 4e4 and all arrests were efcJt d at moment. Without warningfiv^ 53 * 8 taming police, were dispatcff'f. *' Auckland with no other In-* froa than to run south til. __ t ],_??_ <* 3 They continued to travel"' o » night when they reached %£__ Then the car was sent to Pntl^ with two policemen alongside the dS to make sure there would be no l!' mumcation with other persons. Th e oth.' cars returned south to Huntly pun fi Careful precautions were taken _~ no message was sent on trucks into tt mine. The president and £&* the union were sent to the surfa singly, and were arrested. At the _m time search of their premises was _ad 7 and sufficient documentary evidence Yr secured not only to convict them b also to connect certain West C oa = miners unions with the same trouble lb Mcllveney planned the conn, an d it w_ completely successful. Superintends Broberg co-operated on the West Coas< and the men arrested were dealt with „ Auckland.