POLICE DUTIES

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1322, 10 May 1905, Page 2

POLICE DUTIES

TO THE EDITOR Sir, Mny I aik tho Ilov. J, Lebntn ■ Paitull# what ho was doing at the baok doors of the ho'oh, whero ho must have Hew), to oftoD see the constables wiping the " ilew" off their lips ? _ Tbon, as to the Sergeant being the 'right man iu the eight phce, and who is not afraid to do his duty: How is it that the exit of the Presbyterian Ohurcb has tiot yet been altered according to law? Should an alarm o( fire ocour some Sunday evening, when there is a crowded congregation, I droad the coasequonoei. A repetition of tho holacauat that took place at' the Itiqaois Theatre, Ohica»», would be the result—on ut smallor ocale ol com Seoul perhaps as disastrous. So long as the . Sergeant annoys other people he ii doing' his duty; bat lot hioi come near tho " kirk," it would be a monstrous thing, I have bad my say about tne polico and (.he riot, and notwithstsnding my critics, I maintain that tho autocractio methods of the police wore the direot oause of the aistarbftaoe.—lam, etc,,'