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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2290, 26 October 1914, Page 5

During dismission on tlo need for a • more effective system of polioe petrol on tie Auckland harbour front, Mr. P. Virtue remarked at a meeting of the Harbour Board that the disgraceful scenes whioh, had been taking place on the soows were a very forceful argument in favour of greater activity by the polioe in this direction. "Auckland clivays seema to be in the foreground with drunken Bprees of this kind/' said the speaker. Ha thought that something should hfe done to stop them. Mr. W. B. Leyland, endorsed the remarks, and stated that he could not conceive, why the Justice Department thought the harbour did not want policing. What had been mentioned by Mr. Virtue constituted a orime and a disgrace to the port. After the Chairman (Mr. 'J. H. Gunson) had reminded the board of the Department's refusal of an offer of a launch to be continually at the disposal of the polioe, it was deoided to make further representations on the matter. I !A. i Yorkshire woollen manufacturer) to a Wellington friend, tells of a family who had a German governess for 15 years, who was treated almost as a daughter. "The police," ho says, ■"called and examined her box, which was full of inoriminating papers, codes, suggestions, eto., and showed her to have come as ,a spy' and to have been b spy for 15 years. One of his sous has bean in charge of a Territorial company guarding a most important wiroless sta- ' t( o n, 'and had not had his t clothes off for ten daya at a time, sleeping on the wet grass. Spies were v6ry numerous, and , the men were oalled out three times a 'night. The cable supplying electricity was some miles, away, ana spies were continually trying to out - the cable at . places where it was only two feet underground. . A man was stationed eveiy •100 yards. Several spies were Bhot, and now there is an installation of eleotricity : at the Marconi station." 'A motion expressing disapproval of members of industrial unions being compelled to attend union meetings on Sundays was passed by tihe Anglican Diocesan Synod of Auokland on Wednesday. Canon Haselden 'alluded to a re■fcent prosecution in Dunedin, and moved: "That this meeting of the Diocesan ■ 6ynod of Auckland, in view of the judgment recently givon in Dunedin in a case in which the Tramways TJpion sued a member for absenting himself from the meetings of the union held on Sundays, the said judgment declaring that such . meetings were legally held, and therefore inferentially that_ the union was Iwithin its rights in inflicting a fine, deSires to express its regret that the Dunedin Tramways Union is not only holding its business meetings on Sundays, but is endeavouring to coerce those its members who conscientiously object into doing the same." The Rev. A. Richards seconded the motion* which was carried flmanimoiisly.