INQUIRY WANTED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 110, 26 May 1937, Page 5

INQUIRY WANTED

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Questioning of Spanish Nurses

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AECNLAND, Last Night. . ; Exception to cert&in .phhses of the police interrogation of three -nurses ftotti New Sfealand who are on their way to Spain under the auspicfes of the New Zealand Sp&nish Medical Aid has been tekeo hy the Auckland Spanish Medical Asristance Gomniittee. An inquiry iixt'o the pbsitxon is being urgb'd by the committeb Which hAs 'cabled tb Sydney for stateine&ts frbm the nursCs abbut the exac^ natute of the police ! examination. No exception was tdken ito thb -aetion of the police actin'g on the jiftBtructiens of the Minister of Internal ; •Adair* (Hon. W. E. Parry) in asking for the nurses' credentials. The committee, in a statement, points : bUfe thftt it had been Widely advertised that the nurses werb going to Spain j under the auspices of the Spanish Medi* jcal Aid and that the MiOistbr •knew this organisatibn and others werb approVed by the British 'GbVernmerit. Bbwever, : the comniittee agreed it wab reaaonable ; for the Minister to h-aVe this dbwn in wrlting. The eoifimittee objects tb what happened after the police had satisfied theinselves of the nurses' credentials of association with the organisation approved by the British GovernimeOt Under the presidency1 of Dr. D. G. iMcMillan, M.P. The statement adds: "It Would seetn that after this the police had only to coiitmunicate their findings to the paSspert authorities sb that the nurses ' 5 passports might bfe Ondorsed. -Instead ; they *eem to have Cross-examined each nhfse iUdividually for the bbst par't bf the afteraobn afcout their pblitical L* ^