POLICE HOLD A MEETING .

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1722, 12 April 1913, Page 8

POLICE HOLD A MEETING .

1 ASSOCIATION FORMED. (By 'Telegraph.— Pr«a Afisoolatlon.l '■ Auckland, April llj, Tho Auckland police hold a-meeting ionight ami decided. to form a. Polico Association. For some tamo past, it is Mated, there ' has been grnvo dissatisfaction amongst members of tho local force regarding tho principal conditions of. their employment. Although the wages . will also be taken into consideration, amongst the new regulations it appears that quite a number of police arc required to attend drill'on their day oil'. r J his. along with oilier new regulation*, the local •force takes strong exception to. \ Tho meeting was w'l' attended, and there are between 10 and 50 members ok the force who are prepared to subscribe their names- immediately as members of tho'new association. • These, it is stated, are single moil of the forco at present employed- hero. It was agreed that married men should not ho appointed at this juncture, although the majority of them are in full accord with the ivovement. Tho idea at ih>t hud been to form an industrial union, but it was louiid that this'was-impossible, and hence the decision to form an association for,tho pre. sent. ' . i A similar movement i? on loot: in Weiling ton, ami it is by ■ those, prominently conccrned iu pi-cmotint- the Aucklaiul 'Association that Christchurch and Dutiedin intend to follow the cxiunpl" of the nifrl'hern cities \

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