POLICE FORCE HOURS
NO EARLY REDUCTION PROBLEM OF TRAINING ( Parliamentary Deport or.) WELLINGTON, this day. To institute, a 40-hour week in the Police Force, stated the Minister in charge, the Hon. P. Fraser, in the House of Representatives, yesterday, would require the appointment, of 350 additional men. and they could not be trained offhand. It was just a question of how soon they conid reduce the hours, but. Die men had an association and whatever proposals it put forward in a co-operative spirit in regard to reduced hours would bo considered and ns much possible adopted as would work towards the road set by the Government, hut, the difficulty was in regard -to training, because it was necessary, under ordinary conditions, to train 60 men for the maintenance of numbers of the force. Mr. S. G. Holland (Nat., Christchurch N.) commented that this excuse, would not. lio accepted in respect, to an industry. It could not get, away with il in the Arbitration Court. The Minister: The court would not he unreasonable. Mr. Holland replied that, lie could give dozens oi’ instances where it had refused to accept the plea that it was impossible to train employees in time to bring down hours, the clothing trade being one case.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19106, 29 August 1936, Page 2
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