SCHOOL COMMITTEE’S COMPLAINT
-0 Police Interviews With Children Dominion Special Service. Wanganui, March 18. A letter was received al the monthly meeting of the Wanganui Education Board to-day from the Ilalcombe sciiool committee, protesting against children being interviewed by the police at the school in the absence of teachers and without warrant and obtaining statements, sometimes under pressure, from the children. “We believe that m the interests of all this practice should t>c stopped,’’ the letter concluded. The chairman, Mr. E. F. Hemingway, said the letter referred to a boy at the school who was alleged Io have broken .-c'eral telephone insulators. After a snort discussion the complaint was referred to the inspector of police at Palmerston North for his explanation.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 149, 19 March 1936, Page 16
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