Police Supervision
Sir, —Mr Garfield Todd must surely have been disappointed last Monday night, after telling a large meeting about the rise of the Police State in Rhodesia to see an attended police van waiting outside the University Hall. What is the purpose of this surveillance? Have we Kiwis become so intolerant of opposition that we are likely to erupt into violence and cause injury and death before the police can
be summoned from their headquarters a block away? Surely not!—Yours etc. BRENT EFFORD. October 11, 1967. [Chief Superintendent G. Claridge replies: “There is no knowledge at police headquarters in Wellington of the incident referred to, but from the above letter it appears that the normal police function of being present at public gatherings was being carried out.”]
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31501, 16 October 1967, Page 12
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