MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume L, Issue 38, 23 September 1925, Page 544

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

Promotion. To be Sergeant, from Ist September, 1925, No. 1654. Constable Angland, Michael Joseph.

Resignation. No. 2274. Constable Fisher, George Duncan. 14th September, 1925.

Circular No. 4/25.] Registration of Electors. It has been decided that members of the Police Force will, on request, witness the signatures of persons applying for enrolment on the electoral roll. _ . . . It is not intended that they should make special visits for the purpose or go to any trouble or expense in the matter. The arrangement is simply to assist persons in out-of-the-way places to take advantage of a constable’s visit to the locality to make their claims. , All members of the Force who are on the roll for the electorate in which they live can as electors witness the signatures of claimants in that electorate, but in cases where a constable’s subdistrict extends beyond the electorate into perhaps more than one electorate, it will be necessary for him to obtain the Registrar’s authority in accordance with section 8 of the Legislature Amendment Act, 1910, and Registrars are being instructed accordingly. A. H. Wright, Commissioner of Police. Wellington, 17th September, 1925. (P. 25/1247.)

Memorandum.] General Election, 1925. As the time for above is approaching, attention is directed to the instructions contained in Police Gazette, 1919, page 704, and a special effort will be made to ensure good order at all political meetings prior to the election.

Notwithstanding the above instructions, in some places rowdy gangs were allowed to take charge of meetings and prevent the addresses of candidates and others. All meetings should be attended by the police, and, if any undue disturbance takes place, the names of the offenders should be taken and prosecutions instituted. If this is done early in the campaign and the rowdy element realizes that the police are determined to preserve order, there will be less trouble as the election approaches. At important meetings care will be taken that a sufficient number of police is in attendance, and firm action must be taken to enforce order and eject disturbers when it becomes necessary to do so. It is not advisable to make a display of uniform men at political meetings, but if in addition to those in uniform a few are scattered among the audience (in pairs) in plain clothes it will be easier to detect disturbers who overstep the mark, and prove the offence. A. H. Wright, Commissioner of Police. Wellington, 19th September, 1925.