PUBLIC'S RIGHT
WELLINGTON CONTENTION
POLICE HEAD REBUKED O.C. WELLINGTON, this day. The Wellington Harbour Board considers that the wharves should immediately be re-opened to the public. It has decided to send a deputation to the Minister of Defence, Mr. Jones, to urge that this step should be taken. When the war ended, said Mr. R. L. Macalister, at a meeting of the board, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. J. Cummings, stated that it was not intended to allow the public further access in the meantime. At the same time the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, announced that all unnecessary controls were to be abolished without delay. i "It is time one took the subject up more actively and called the commissioner's bluff," he said. "It is up to the board to say who is going to run the wharves —the board, or a civil servant." The public had had the right—not the privilege—to use the wharves for many years before the war and would not stand for continued restriction. The public was paying £50,0000 to £60,000 a year for 40 to 60 police officers on the wharves when half a dozen night watchmen could do the job equally well. It was time the commissioner was told that police were needed in, other places."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 200, 24 August 1945, Page 6
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