NO WOMEN POLICE
MU. WiHFOBD’S ATTITUDE. WELLINGTON, June 9. “I am not m favour of women police,” said the Minister of Justice, the Hon T. M. Wiiford, when replying this morning to a deputation from the New Zealand Justices of the Peace Association. ‘‘While I am Minister of Justice,” he added, “I will never recommend the appointment of women police.” The Minister said the late Sir John Salmond had stated, that, under the present law, women police could not be appointed, therefore it \yould be necessary to amend the Police Force Act in order to make the change. The appointment of police matrons, who were not sworn in as officers of the force, was quite a different thing. A woman who took the oath of office as a member of tnc police force must carry out all the police force regulations, which she could not .do because of her sex. If women were to become members of the police force they must take the oath in the same way as a policeman and bo prepared to carry out all the duties which a policeman was called upon to perform.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1929, Page 6
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