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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 146, 23 June 1916, Page 4

Tlie Wellington Acclimatisation Society last season received £ll2l 12s 6d from the sale of licenses. It is said that the powers of inquisition given in the Military Service Bill to search out shirkers the authority of the constable to sally "‘forth without warrant seeking for whom he may arrest will not be conceded without a struggle. It is contended that there is much to justify the opinion that too much must not be left to the discretion of the individual constable. The latest case counselling for caution is the prosecution of speakers at an overflow meeting for causing the obstruction of the public highway when two constables did not even take the trouble to caution the individuals summoned that they were committing a breach of the city by-law.