RETENTION IN N.Z.
YOUNG POLICEMEN ESSENTIAL TO STATE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. In an interview, Mr. J. Meltzer, general secretary of the New Zealand Police Association, said the view expressed by counsel, in pleading the case of a constable charged at Auckland With resigning without authority so that he might join the air force, that able-bodied policemen, had been retired at G 5 when they could have been retained for the duration of the war, is not the view of the association. Members of the association agreed with the magistrate that it is very necessary to keep as many active young men as constables as possible, as they were much more useful in the community ns policemen than they would be in the war. The public recognised that the majority of policemen remained in New Zealand, not through any lack of patriotism, but because their work was essential to the State. Mr. Meltzer indicated that the retirement age was a very live question in the force. Members had been pressing for earlier retirement for years.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20635, 15 August 1941, Page 2
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