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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1932, Page 9

Keen students are wondering at the failure of the unions to protest when the Government appointed Superintendent Mackay, chief of the criminal investigation branch, to the position of metropolitan superintendent, which places him next to the Commissioner (states a Sydney paper). Mr Mackay, who will be remembered by New Zealanders as the man who went over to the Dominion to arrest Silas Maling, at the time of the graft scandals, concerning Bunnerong Powerhouse, is also the man who, at Rothbury coalfield, organised and led the many sorties on (miners’ homes in search of arms. Af- ; ter the Rothbury trouble had subsided, Mr Baddeley, the local member, and now Minister in the State Government, promised the miners that if the Labour Party ever got back tp power, Mackay would get what he deserved. “He’ll go to Bourke,” Mr Baddeley said. The same Mr Baddely is a member of the Cabinet that appointed Mr Mackay to the metropolitan superintendent’s chair. And not one word of protest has come from the unions concerned. It is suggested that Mr Mackay has promised the Government to put an end to the New Guard, and that, on that understanding the unions have promised not to embarrass him.