WOMEN POLICE.
To the Editor oX " The Tlmaru Herald “
Sir—l quite agree with "Onlooker" in his letter in to-day’s issue of your paper, referring to women police. They would be a real Godsend to New Zealand, and to all those who love law and order. These women police would save many a silly woman from herself I have also read "Common Decency’s" letter as well, and this is where we need women police most: To put down drinking among them and to save their own sex from doing downhill, and also to see that girls under sixteen are not out late at night; to visit hotels and a hundred and one other things. A police woman in each rural town would be a blessing. A police woman should be given the power to arrest all women who are drunk, and do what she tells them for their own good and protection, and to visit dancing halls and to order all to go home who have been drinking, or arrest them. The police woman would be more a friend than an enemy to these weak, silly women, and a friend to all strangers in large cities. England has her women police and they have turned out a blessing to thousands of unfortunate women and girls, so why not women police for New Zealand.—l am, etc., RICHARD BARRON. Tlmaru, October 18.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19624, 19 October 1933, Page 11
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229WOMEN POLICE. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19624, 19 October 1933, Page 11
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