POLICE NOT WANTED

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6660, 6 November 1908, Page 5

POLICE NOT WANTED

AT BROKEN HILL A QUESTION ABOUT ARMS AND MUNITIONS. FEDERAL AID INVOKED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE, November 5. : la the Senate yesterday, Senator! McGregor, leader of the Labour party, drew, attention to the action of the. ■Now South Wales Government in sending extra police to Broken Hill, and (added that a consignment of arms and ammunition had also been sent. He idid not, ho said, believe the officials of the mines or the miners wanted tho initorferenco of the Government at all; they could settle their troubles themselves. He desired to know by what authority New South Wales had transported arms and ammunition through jtivo States of the Commonwealth. Senator Keating, Secretary for Home (Affairs, in reply, said there was a pro-! (vision in the Constitution which made ; lit impossible tor a State to raise naval! ,and military forces, but that did not prevent a State from organising a ’force to keep peace and order within iits borders. He would lay the matter ’before the Government. STATE MINISTERS’ DENIAL. MASS MEETING AT SEAT- OF TROUBLE. GOVERNMENT CONDEMNED. SYDNEY, November 5. Mr W. H. Wood, Chief Secretary and Minister for Labour, has stated that there is no truth in the statement, so far as police or Government is concerned, that arms and ammunition have been despatched to Broken Hill.. ,

The Municipal Council at Broken Hill, and a large mass meeting held at that place condemned the action of the Government in sending extra- police to the bown.