POLICE JOURNAL.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 366, 22 February 1937, Page 4

POLICE JOURNAL.

First Issue of New Official Organ.

A copy of the first issue of the New Zealand Police Journal,, the official organ of the New Zealand Police Association (Inc.), has been received in Stratford. It was printed in February and will be a quarterly publication. A good deal of space is devoted to a report of a special conference of delegates from all districts of the N.Z. Police Association at Welling ton in December last, when the early policy of the Association was determined. Stratford people will be in terested to learn that the Conference ! Chairman was Sergeant T. Kelly. V'ho was formerly stationed in the ' town. In the publication it is intended to deal with reports of staff change:, district notes, and matters of general interest to the member®' of the force. An editorial recalls that in 1913 members of the force in Auckland first formed an association with Mr

j Arthur Resser, a prominent Labour j Union Secretary and well-known J.P. : as their secretary. The movement developed out of dissatisfaction with conditions in the force but the heads of the department took a. grave view of the situation as involving a serious breach of discipline on the part of the promoters. As a result of what folio v*‘ad the association was broken I up. Later the police were given the ! option of forming an association of : their own or of joining the- Public Service Association. The latter i course was adopted but did not prove 1 a. success. In a message to the officers and I men published in the Journal the ; Minister in charge of the Department, Hon. P. Fraser, expects that every ■ eligible man will join the Association