POLICE COMMISSION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13958, 19 July 1909, Page 6

POLICE COMMISSION.

EVtDENCIi AT DUNEDIN. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, July 17. At t!ie Police Commission to-day, Sergeant Willis said that married men objected to having to go home in uniform. The rate of. pay should he raised, as the present rate did not attract the right class of men. Mr Diimfe's cjro3s-exa-m.inati.on. was continued by Mr Arnold, M.P. A large number of questions were put to the witness, with a view of eliciting the method pursued by the Department before enrolling candidates for the lon-e. Mr Dinnie contended that the examination and enquiry made into the candidate's antecedents was as full as could reasonably be expected, 'but Mr Arnold did not agree with him. Mr Dinnie called attention to the percentage of arrests to offences reported to the police from 1901-2 to 1908-9. They were respectively 93.94, 95.91, 93.95; that showed that die foreo had shown '.l high degree of efficiency. The file of papers hearing on an application of the finger print expert for leave of absence was referred to at length. :Ur Arnold's contention was that originally the expert was granted six months' leave on full pay, hut that the documents were subsequently altered to give only one month on full pay. Mr Bishop said that lie had examined the file, and if the allegations made were true the ex-Minister of Justice must have been a party to the withdrawal of the original application and the substitution of another document.

The Commission will sit again on J fond ay.