POLICE COMMISSION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 556, 10 July 1909, Page 5

POLICE COMMISSION.

INDIGNATION MEETING AT LYTTEb- < v TON. . (By TclcEraph.-l'rcss ABSOolatlonJ . ■ I Ohrlstchuroh, July 9. [ A largely-attended iliooting of tbo waterI side - workers of Lyttelton was hold this morning, to heart,an address. ;by iMr. G. j-Laurensoti, LM.P., on tbo. Government natibnal'annuity scheme.: It was afterwards .:• resolvodjinto an indignation mooting to protest .ajjainst'tho statements inado ;by ®xDetoctivo (Jonnoll ill giving ovidenco before ■ ' tho Police Commission' at ; Invorcargill, ! roflooting upoti the working men of ; Lyttelton. -, Thoi'O was a considerable, amount ot : discus-i ;• siori; v several 1 of tho; speakers / expressing themselves in . the 1 strongest . terms of dis-1 approval. On tho motion of Mr. H..; R. , Voyco, secouded by ( Mr. J. Eemsley, tho fol-.i-lowing' resolution o was carried unanimonsly "That this largo and representative mooting of Lyttelton wa.tersido workers desires to ox. . press its. .deep' indignation, at the unfounded and false'' statements regarding the honesty of tho working. wen of . Lyttolton, made by ' ■ cx-Dotec.tive Connell before tho Police Com-' mission'at 'Invorcargill; it also desires toconvey to Mr. La'urenson its sympathy with 'him'to boing tho subject of a slanderous' and spiteful attack; and,, further, it the'officers'of trie union to seo that ovidonoo' is; put before the Police Commission' when' it. 'sit 3 'in Christchuroh in refutation of' tho ' atfcaok'raadO upon tho workers of this port." A further resolution ,was carriod,instjructing ••• tho executive of tho'iinioia to.tako tho ncoos- ' sary stops to cAablo witnossos to appear bo- ' fore tho .Police; Commission in t Christclmrch, 1 and it was also dccidcd to communicate with Mr.'Bishop, tlio Commissioner, asking him to havo ex-Detoctivo ConrioU brought to Christohnrcli bo that lie may ba cross-ox-aminod 1 on tho ovidonoo, given by him: at ' InvorcargUl., \ ,