IN THE CELLS
EMERGENCY POLICE ACCOMMO'
DATION,
' Th» "holiday trip" for the police detachment who accompanied the Prince of Wales during his New Zealand tour was a holiday in name only, for the men were on duty for long hours throughout the tour. At most of the Prince's' stopping places arrangements were made beforehand for the accommodation of the members of the detachment,' but at Dunedin the arrangements, for some reason, went astray, and the men were informed that they would have to sleep in the cells of the old police gaol, but now in use as a ]ock-u"p. They objected on principle, and still more so when they were told, that single cells would have to be shared, and stated their objections unmistakably. Atj 11 p.m. permission was given the* men to endeavour to obtain accommodation in hotels, which were said to be already overcrowded. Happily there proved to be ample unoccupied accommodation, and the men, about sixty in all, left the station and the cells. • .
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 123, 25 May 1920, Page 8
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167IN THE CELLS Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 123, 25 May 1920, Page 8
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