THE POLICE COMMISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 175, 28 August 1909, Page 2

THE POLICE COMMISSION.

UO.V. M'UOWAX'S EVIDEXT'E. Uy '.telegraph.—Press Association. ~ ~ „ Auckland, J'Yiday. -It the 1 oliee Commission to-dav, 'the J .»n. for j',,slice. , . hlld , J , l " for complaint in Tl i ' iiilministratioii. : " n 'y complaint he had was a genCial desire fur molv (wy . j|( (j ao.nT? i™' ]i '' lliul fr,, 'l»'-«tlv been ppioaciied in regard to tlie tiou ol police by members of Parliament, a man was not worthy of promotion ''ccominendatiou of any member of I '"''anient would avail. ))e euuld suggest a remedy but would not like to apply it, viz., to take awav the fr.i-i----cn'se trom the police. >' •i dm!e' IMI"' 111 'I 1" ." 0l tllillk - vo " c '"» .'P It (hat remedy in \ew Zealand. -Mr. Jlf.owan said lie believed the lomniissioiier should have the powe..""".'"•"'""P 4-oi.ld not »■!> tin- (omuiissioner should have tile power of dismissing a ,„an. |fe tl|,,,oinl"d po/in- njl ( j u , ( ei s recommendation, Commis-inncd officer were appointed by Cabinet on the fV, m ' »'™dati«n. iSiib-lnsp.'c-tm Wright \yas promoted from chief clnk to sub-inspector on J| r Drmie's recommendation. He could len.cuir any special circumstanecs. ()nlv one application for leave f,„- Mr I limine s s«n came before llim.' It was not an application for six months' leave Winch would certainly have been 'rir' SC n Jl' ( b>w,m ailribnled the dillleulty experienced j„ gcttinu' men fn join the polici* to the raisin" nf wages outside by the Arbitration Courts winch he regarded in principle as being unsound.

Auckland, Last Xiriifc. lie Hon. ,]. Mcdowan, who gave evi- ' the following reason wli.v i») Jhere is dilliculty in securi^i" \v; wT """ "!" n hl f'c force" \\ ill)i the foimntion of so many mn'ons. and the making of so many arbitration awds. the rale of w a g cs has gone in much higher than it was. The result is hat ,«en orefcr _to g„.i n for manuala )oi. | J,e> pj-fucipJc of i'ncrpasiii«T i wages by arbitration awards is j„ m y opinion." said Mr. McGowan. "an ,n----'onnd one If Hie price nf labor iput aliove its economic value, something must happen. While the cointrv pro ~ "■Ts. it is all ' 'gill, but with a time depression there will be a very different state of affairs, and someone' must suf- ' n ' ; " la ' "" s has some Icvii i-' on the present, scarcity of candidates tor the police force."