BETTING RAIDS
N.S.W. POLICE METHODS LABOUR MEMBERS FAIL TO SUPPORT CHARGES Received March 16, 8 50 p.m. SYDNEY, Mareh 16. When the Royal Commission on betting raids opened to-day, it was announced that the two Labour Pariiamentarians, Messrs Lazzarini and Clyne, who in Parliament ha I made serious charges again-t the police, did not intend to appear before the Commission. The Police Commissioner. Mr Mac Kay, however, attended and gave evidence in defence of the police method. He denied the statement made in Parliament that if the police did not retain with a car load of betting of fenders they were unfavourably looked upon. He detailed the departmental methods of checking the honesty of both parties in betting ca>es and said that as a result of spasmodic departmental inquiries into police methods some officers had been disrated, transferred or dismissed as the circumstances warranted. The f'ornmiission adjourned until next j Monday.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 7
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