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POLICE CONTROL

Sir, —Keadiug, your correspondent's lettex signed "Police Control'" I exclaimed at last: Someone has titer courage to voice what is the mind of hundreds of people in the country and town —we have more police now than we used to have—hundreds of men are away yet the state of things is a disgrace. What about after hours trading? I can get a drink at any hour —to sit in a car on a Friday evening and watch the entrance of either |M||l is an eyeopener to a policeman in sight yet the bars are full. While waiting for the family on a recent Saturday I saw a young Maori come out of an hotel with a helplessly drunk old Maori man. He could hardly keep his own feet and yet was returning to the hotel after pushing the old man into the car and his- young wife with a small baby in her arms was trying to get him to go home. I was disgusted. The noise of the drunken crowd in the bars can be. heard chains away. One of the hotels not far out of the district has been known for a long time to contribute to the state of affairs complained of by "Police Control" and I think it is time the churches took the matter- up and demanded an inquiry into this shocking state of affairs. Your etc., ' FED UP.'*

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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 275, 24 February 1941, Page 4

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236

POLICE CONTROL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 275, 24 February 1941, Page 4

POLICE CONTROL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 275, 24 February 1941, Page 4

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