MR. REDMOND, M.P., ASTOUNDED.
REMARKS ON POLICE MATTERS,
(By ToJcErnbh.-SDecial Correspondent.* Auckland, Juno 4. In tho course of his speech in Auckland, Mr. W. A. Redmond, M.P. for East. Tyrone, said that ho had been astounded by the smallness of tho polieo force in New Zealand. He learned that thirty constables wero considered sufficient for the preservation of law and order among the good people of Wellington. If tho city was policed on tho sanio system as that obtaining in Ireland, it would have 6000 police. Ireland had to pay a million and a half a year for tho maintenance of tho police force, though, in Scotland, where the population was greater, and there was 40 per cent, more crime, the expenditure, was only .£BOO,OOO. It was not because the Irish were unrulv, for there was less crime, ia tho whole of Ireland than in any manufacturing town in Great Britain.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1145, 5 June 1911, Page 4
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