POLICE ACTION CRITICISED.
PROTEST IN PALMERSTON H. j (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) PALMERSTON NORTH, this day. A suggestion that the recent police interrogation in Auckland of the three nurses leaving for Spain was not unrelated to the attempts of the Foreign Office to prevent the Dean of Canterbury's ecclesiastical delegation entering Spain some weeks ago was made by Dr. W. M. Smith, M.A. Ph.D., in a public address last ni"bt. He cited the Manchester "CJuardFan's" reports of repeated endeavours to invalidate the delegation's passports for spain. Dr. Smith said it was on account of the dependence of Australia and Xew Zealand on the British Foreign Office in diplomatic affairs that the Internal Affairs Department raised some question concerning the nurses leaving for Spain. The lengthy police examination, however, was, in his opinion, unjustifiable. The meeting passed a motion of protest against the police action of intimidating and obstructing the nurses on the eve of their departure.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 127, 31 May 1937, Page 11
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