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Power to Search Cars Suggested CONFISCATION OF UQUOR
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DUNEDIN, Last Night. A suggcstion that the powers oi the police should be widened in order to eniable them to deal With the prohlCm of liquor at dances was made at % Women's Christiaa TemperanCe Uilitm coiiferenc© of the Otago distfiet of the to-day. It is the iateiitiOii of the Unioii to maka a stroug endeavour to Cfilist the support of local bodies for the sttggestioa, in the hope that their influence rnight give greater weight to a potition to Parliament. The suggestion, which was made by a delegate from the Mosgiel bfiOneh Of the union, was as f ollows— ' 'That local branches be asked to approach city and borough couneils requesting their c0operation in petitioning Piaiiiameiit to extend the powers of policemen, giving them the right to seareh suspected cars in the vicinity of dance h&lls, to confiscat© all liquor found in the cars, and also td arrest the occupants if the worse of liquor." Delegates expressed their unattimous approval of the suggestion and promis-' ed to refer it to the branches they represented.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 11, 6 October 1937, Page 7
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