“AUCKLAND’S SINS”

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 289, 6 September 1928, Page 10

“AUCKLAND’S SINS”

THAT PARADE OF MOURNING The Police Commissioner’s proclamation of a crime crusade in Auckland, and the Salvation Army’s siu parade last 'week, provided Mr. J. A. Lee (Auckland East) with topical material with which he enlivened an otherwise quiet debate in the House of Representatives yesterday, when the annual report of the Police Department was before members. “Twelve months ago,” Mr. Lee said, “the Commissioner of Police led us to believe that he was embarking on a crusade against crime in Auckland. At that time I did not think Auckland was as bad as alarmist head-lines would lead us to believe, but if there was anything in the Commissioner’s statement that he was going to stamp out sin and iniquity, are we to tqke last week’s sin parade of the Salvation Army as evidence that lie has failed to deliver the goods? I do not think so. I have a feeling that this time it is not the Commissioner of Police who is in error, but the other Commissioner. (Laughter.) It would be interesting to know at this time, when Auckland is receiving a good deal of attention, if the Commissioner has said that there has been an improvement, and that mourning parade took place in the wrong town.” Mr. Lee added that he believed that if the police report was based upon fact and not upon fiction, all the towns in New Zealand would show up very creditably.