POLICE REGULATIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 272, 17 November 1943, Page 4

POLICE REGULATIONS

NO CONTROL OVER MANPOWER AUTHORITIES (P.A.) Auckland, Nov. 17. “The police authorities can do as they wish with policemen who desire to work in their spare time, but they do not control a constable’s wife who is in an essential industry,” said the chairman of IT Auckland Manpower (Industrial) Committee, Mr. J. O. Liddell. “I have commented on this previously, and if there is any obstruction of tltis kind the matter should be brought before the manpower officer.” Mr. Liddell’s remarks were made during a case in which Miss L. D. Connell (Mr. Tong) sought her release from the Post and Telegraph Department. The staff superintendent at the Chief Post Office. Mr. S. Smith, said it had been intended to replace Miss Connell with another female employee who had been transferred from the Russell (Bay of Islands) office. However, this girl married an Auckland constable who advises lhe post office that his wife could not. continue her duties as the regulations prevented a policeman’s wife from working. “I rang the superintendent of police and he said that this was so,” said Mr. Smith. “His information was that a policeman’s wife could not work without special permission from the Commissioner of Police. The girl has not been released by the Post and Telegraph Department or by lhe manpower officer, but she has not come back to work. She says the police regulations—” “Those regulations have nothing to do with it,” said Mr. Liddell. “The excuse that police regulations will not allow her to work has no bearing on the matter. All women between 18 years and 30 years, including those who are married and without children, come within the scope of the Manpower Emergency Regulations and can be directed to industry.”

The appeal was allowed on condition that Miss Connell remained in her present nos L-km for not longer than a month.