REGISTERING FIREARMS.
ACT SUPPORTED. Assistance to Police. The Morrinsville branch of the New Zealand Farmers* Union does riot see eye to eye with a remit, to be discussed al the Auckland executive conference, to the effect that the Arms and Explosives Act should be amended to make it unnecessary to register firearms and to allow of free purchase of explosives. At Saturday night’s meeting Mr. Carter referred to a recent accident and said that no man should be allowed to possess a firearm until he knew how to use it.
Mr. S. Ferguson said the Act was a war measure and it was time it was abolished. This applied more particularly to explosives. A farmer often needed explosives in a hurry and was unable to run round the countryside looking for a policeman to secure a permit. Mr. Carter referred to the assistance given by the Act to the police in the detection of crime. Mr. A. Topham said the Act was not in existence before the war and he failed to see why it should now* be continued. Mr. P. S. Philpott agreed with Mr. Carter that the measure was a good one in that it gave great assistance to the police. He moved that the y delegates to the conference be instructed not to support the remit. The motion was carried by a smaMfc majority.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 288, 16 May 1929, Page 4
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