THE POLICE ASSOCIATION.
AIR, WEBB’S DECLARATION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, October 22. “Whatever 1 can do to organise the police, independently of anything that Parliament may do, I am going to do it. ’ declared Mr Webb, speaking on the third reading of the Police Force Bill this even-
mg. The Minister of Justice (the Hon. Mr Herdman), commenting on this statement, said: “ Imagine the condition of things that could arise if you had a police association controlled and influenced by the member for Grey.” Mr Webb; “They would not do what they did at Waihi under your influence.” Mr Herdman said that had the police been under the influence of tbo member for Grey dining the Waihi trouble, instead of one death there might have been several. If an association such as that desired v.i-ro allowed to exist in the police force it would be a danger to the whole community. No doubt prominent Labour leaders wore at the back of the movement. No Government with a proper sense of its responsibility would tolerate such a state of affairs.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 3
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