THE POLICE FORCE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1777, 16 June 1913, Page 5

THE POLICE FORCE.

MINISTER'S EECENT STATEMENT. (By Tdeirraph—Buecln! OorresnondelLtJ Aukland, June 15. The men of the Auckland city police 6taff are in receipt of the text of the Hon. A. L. Hordman'a Teply to their , requests. It is somewhat mone _ detailed than that announced from Wellington by .telegraph, and intimates that the monthly allowance of 89. id. for footwear, etc., will take effect as from April 1. It also advises that fifteen minute 3 "snack time" will be allowed the men on night duty, and that overtime spent at the. police court (for prosecution pulses) may be allowed to accumulate till it reaches eight hours, when a day off will bo allowed, Mr. A. Eosser, organiser of the Police Association, has gone south, and ilt ifi expected tnat he will place some matters before tlw Ministers In view of the appeal of Constable F.*> gmyth,; of Greymouth, against his dismissal, on the ground that the punish,ment was disproportionate to the offence,an Auckland instance will, probably ■ be > cited of a'constable who left his post at 6ome three hours before his time, and filled in the book aheadto indicate that l>e had been at the station when he was not there. In that instance the punishment was a fine.