DISCONTENTED POLICE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13069, 8 May 1913, Page 8

DISCONTENTED POLICE.

STATEMEiII'S IN AUCKLAND

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND; last riight. The concessions tb the police "force which the Hon. A» L.'Herdma-n referred to m an interview m Wellington yesterday, do not appeal to any considerable extent to some of the men., i A juember of the Police^ Aiaagciatioti jem^r^ed^ today that the concessions stated -by^the Minister.' to have been granted ,to |he force were- appreciated quite at their full "value "by the rankers of the servic °- . 'i' h i", % .;^U X" ' •». '•• '-»-■ . .■'"' What theyi'xiave given us an increase m pay to the higher officers of the service. They .have given us four superintendents that cost the country £2000 a year. They haye, ..given -.us ;new.. and harassing regulations. They have given us a more comfortable _ uniform, for which we 'have to pay more out of our own pockets to get vmade up ; also the Minister 10 months ago gave us ,a . pro : mise that the uniforms./. would be free; but since then we have 'heard, nothing more of it." " : .> . . That, the speaker sai(J> wasMhe view of. the ranker , m, the i force of... the. concessions mentioned by the Minister, and the ranker quite failed to see .where he came within the- scope w o£ -the concessions, j „>r.v. -■;..•; n|<, ,T«r't ! » Mr Bosser, t/ba Labor" agitator to whom Mr Herdman referred, who has taken over the secretaryship of the new, > Association, says that: he has not been an agitator among the men. The seeds .ff .discontent were sown long- sinee — this was the raping. . It was clear that 'the Police Association was purely one . ior defence, and was not m any way^BLJbody that would be concerned m industrial turmoil. It was recognised that the police stO&dL fjpr law/jand,; ordj^r. A^, Labor officials <, that], cleaifJyj and personally he would' rio£~~lend' vim.self to a movement antagonistic to such a principle. . v ln,, New.JSoufh Wales there was a P, oljc^!LteQCjiitj,oii ihaCwas recognised by the Government, and was on the same basis similar association of post and telegraph men or railway, men."; The -raen did rfaotiqpmplain so much of the" regulations* as of the administration, and . the Commiss ; oner had recognised the force of their contentions by ; remedvii\g*t.he .grievances. ■ It was true that there Bad been an 'increase m the expenditure.-, ,pn the force, but that benefit had hot come to the rank and file. -3?pur : .', new* 'positioins, 1 at ,go6d salaries had beeri' created, but these had naturally gone to, the higher officials.