The Local Policeman
Sir,—Recalling well the days of youth, when children instinctively respected and would not have lost the respect of their local policemen for anything and behaved accordingly with certain decorum in the street and even in their homes where it might have been the habit to say “If you don’t behave” to some irritating small boy, “we will have to tell the policeman." Though love of the small boy for his tall broad - shouldered, blueuniformed friend was too valuable to jeopardise, law and order reigned. Families from London brought their traditional love of the London Bobby to New Zealand.
Christchurch, not yet so outsized, retains some English and good habits. Psychological effects from the past lose their efficacy with unnecessary removal of the suburban policeman, whose presence was indicative of reassurance
and protection in emergency. —Yours, etc., TIMES CHANGE. January 11, 1963.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30028, 12 January 1963, Page 3
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