INCIDENT IN SHOP
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The Minister of Police (Mr Connelly) has asked the Commissioner of Police (Sir Angus Sharp) to supply details of an incident in which the staff of a Christchurch radical bookshop say they had to remove forcibly a policeman who refused to leave. The matter became public a week ago when MY M. J. Braithwaite, of the Resistance Bookshop, in Ferry Road, said that he and a colleague had grabbed a plain clothes policeman by the arm and had "thrown” him out on i to the footpath after he had been told to leave the shop four or five times, and had failed to do so.
The policeman was said to; have been one of two who! had gone into the shop on February 22. The other had! left peacefully. Mr Braithwaite said that the complaint had been made to the Minister because he did not think the police in Christchurch would do anything about it. When the head of the! Christchurch police district (Chief Superintendent G.! Tait) was asked to comment I he said that he knew nothing about the matter.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33480, 11 March 1974, Page 1
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187INCIDENT IN SHOP Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33480, 11 March 1974, Page 1
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