“HIGHLY-COLOURED.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1950, 11 March 1919, Page 1

“HIGHLY-COLOURED.”

WORK FOR POLICEWOMEN. The women members of the police force of Newark, New Jersey, have added to their duties that of arresting girls with dazzling complexions, washing the rouge and powder Oft their faces, and sending them home (writes the New York correspondent of a London paper). They are acting under orders from the Chief of Police, Mr Thomas Gorbajly, who, following the arrest and forcible ablution of ten girls, was interviewed by -reporters regarding the reasons for his novel extension of the functions of the police. “I get my authority,” said Mr Corbally, “from the common law, and I feel also I am acting in place of the parents of these girls, who would want me to do what I am doing if they knew what was going on.” Mr Corbally lias staiioned several policemen outside the railway stations of Newark. According to him, Newark has recently been plagued by girls from New York, who lay on their dangerous complexion-, in the ladies’ waiting rooms, whither before their return home (hey repair for the purpose of removing their high facial colour. The victims af the new terror of the Jaw submitt M for (he most part quietly, though with tears, to forcible police washing.