QUESTIONING OF NURSES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19334, 26 May 1937, Page 14

QUESTIONING OF NURSES

TRIO FOR SPAIN AUCKLAND RESENTMENT (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Exception to certain phases of the Auckland police interrogation of the three nurses from i\c'w Zealand who are on their way to Spain, under the auspices of the New Zealand Spanish meuical aid committee, has been taken by the Auckland Spanish medical assistance committee. An inquiry into the position is being urged by the committee, which has cabled to Sydney for Statements from the nurses about the exact nature of the police examination. No exception was taken to the action of the police in acting on the instructions of the -Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. \V. E. Parry, in asking for the nurses' credentials. The committee, in a statement, points out that it bad been widely advertised that the nurses were going to Spain under the auspices of the Spanish medical aid committee and that the .Minister knew that this organisation, and others, were approved •by the British Government. However, the committee agreed it was reasonable for the Minister to nave this down in writing. The committee objects to what happened after the police had satisfied themselves as to the nurses' credentials and of their association with an organisation approved by the British Government and under the presidency of Dr. D. <\. .McMillan, M.P. The statement adds: "ft would seem that, after this, the police had only to communicate their findings to the passport authorities, so that the nurses* passports might be endorsed. Instead, they seem to have cross-examined the nurses individually for the best part of the afternoon about their political opinions."