Charges Against New South Wales Police
LABOUR M.P.'s BACK OUT. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 8.50 p.m. SYDNEY, Mar. 10. When the Royal Commission on the betting raids opened to-day it was announced that the tw T o Labour Parliamentarians, Messrs Lazzariui and Clyue, who in Parliament made serious charges against the police, did not intend to appear before the commission. Police Commissioner Mac Kay, however, attended and gave evidenco in defence of the police methods. Ho denied the statement made in Parliament that if the police did not return with a carload of betting offenders they were unfavourably looked upon. He detailed the departmental methods of cheeking tho honesty of both parties in betting cases and said as a result of spasmodic departmental inquiries into police methods, some officers had been disrated and transferred or dismissed as the circumstances warranted. The commission adjourned until next Monday.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 64, 17 March 1936, Page 7
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