Equipment Of Police Reviewed
[Per Press Association.—Copyright! WELLINGTON, This Day. In a notice of a question to the Minister for National Service, when the House met at 2.30 p.m. yesterday, Mr. C. J. E. Harker (Oppn.-Waipawa) asked whether the Minster would take steps to see that the police force was supplied with the necessary equipment to carry out duties allotted to it under the E.P.S. scheme. He contended that the police force in Wellington was without adequate supplies of stretchers, disinfectants, rubber gloves, steel helmets, overalls and other necessary equipment. Speaking to a point of order, the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) submitted that it was not the proper use of either a question or note to a question to make such a statement. As a matter of fact, it was not proper use to make a note to a question when something was contained in it that was not supported by facts. The Speaker (Mr. W. E. Barnard) said statements should be carefully checked, and it was not correct for questioners to - include in a question something that might be a matter of hearsay, or that he could not personally vouch for.
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Northern Advocate, 8 October 1941, Page 7
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