N.Z. NURSES FOR SPAIN
INTERROGATION BY POLICE ORDERED BY DEPARTMENT (Por Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. It is learned from tin authoritative sourco in Wellington to-day that the interrogation by tho Auckland police ot the three New Zealand nurses who lelt, last week for .Spain lo join an ambulance unit of the loyalist forces was conducted by police officers at the request of the Internal Affairs Department in Auckland. It is also stated that there was a strong possibility that tho nurses would not be permitted to enter Spain because of the. restrictions imposed under the extension of the non-intervention agreement to cover the dispatch of volunteers to Spain, and the Commissioner ol Police, Mr. D. J. Cummings, declined to discuss the case, other than to say that he expected to have a report on the action of the Auckland police in a day or two. The Under-Secretary for the Department of Internal Affairs, Mr. J. W. lleenan, also declined to comment, pending a statement by the Minister of Internal Affairs In due course.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19333, 25 May 1937, Page 11
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