NO WOMEN POLICE.
MR. WILFORD'S ATTITUDE.
"I WILL NEVER RECOMMEND IT."
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)] WELLINGTON, Thursday.
"I am not in favour of women police," said the Minister of Justice, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, when replying this morning to a deputation from the New Zealand Justices of the Peace Association. "While I am Minister of Justice," he added, "I will never recommend 'he appointment of women police." The Minister said the late Sir John Salmond had stated that, under tha present law, women police could not be appointed, therefore it would he necessary to amend the Police Force Act in order to make the change. The appointment of polios matrons, who were not sworn in as officers of the force, was quite a different thing. A woman who took the oath of office as a member of the police force must carry out all the police force regulations, which she could not do because of her sex. If women were to become members of the police force. they must take the. oath in the same way as a policeman and be prepared to carry out all the duties which a policeman was called upon to perform.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 133, 7 June 1929, Page 9
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196NO WOMEN POLICE. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 133, 7 June 1929, Page 9
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