TOO MUCH OFFICE WORK.
EOR COUNTRY CONSTABLES
APPEAL IN THE HOUSE
(Bv Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 10.
Mr. T. D. Burnett (Temuka) has ■asked the Minister of Justice whether he will consider taking immediate steps to reduce the amount of -office work done by country constables in order to give them greater opportunities to patrol their districts. So much clerical work is required of the average country constable in the shape of collecting statistics and filling in forms that the officer is much more of a 'clerk than a police consequently there is a con- ■ sWrable amount of uneasiness in . country districts owing to the fact that a local constable is debarred from taking periodical turns through his area, said Mr Burnett. This uneasiness had become more pronounced since some magistrates had been in the habit lately of making convictions and discharges conditional on the prisoner coming into the country.
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Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17660, 10 August 1929, Page 5
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