Now The Police Are Feuding
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SECTIONS of native workers in Papua can go a-feudin’ just as easily as their more sophistica ted brethren down South.
A native policeman, travelling in a Port Moresby bus, had an alter cation with the driver. The driver put him off.
Next thing, a bus loaded with returning school-children (Euro pean) became involved in a fracas.
Off-duty native police tried to board the bus —they said they wanted a word with a driver who had struck one of their colleagues.
Another policeman, on duty, on the bus, acted as peacemaker. He forcibly kept the aggressive off-duty men off the bus. The altercation
was lively, but the driver was unscathed.
Reuter says high officialdom is “investigating”.
Port Moresby, June 2: Sixteen native policemen were today acquitted of a charge of riotous behaviour. After a week-long trial, petty sessions magistrate, Mr. A.
R. O’Driscoll, found not proved the charge that the policemen caused a riot when, on May 12, they gathered around a school bus and chased it towards town.
Mr. David Kay, secretary to Burns Philp (NH) Ltd., at Vila, New Hebrides, and Mrs. Kay, were on leave in NSW in May.