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QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT.
POLICE GRIEVANCES.
RRIS13AN13, Monday.
In tlie Assembly tu-duy tiie formal
business was quickly disposed of.
The following Bills were read a
third time:—Commonwealth iJeposit
Bill, the Metropolitan Water Sewerage
Act Amendment Bill, and tlie
Mui.nl Crosby Tramway Mill.
The estimates of tlie Home department
were further considered. On •
general police vote members complained
that the senior sergeants and sergeants,
who were tlie backbone of the
forcc, were unfairly treated under the
lifciv scheme. Willie the Commissioner
and inspectors -were given enormous
increases the senior sergeants and sergeants
received the munificent increases
of a/4 and 1/10 per wools respectively.
The Home Secretary, in reply, pointed
out that It had been urged that the
senior sergeants and sergeants should
be placed on a level with siinfiar ranks
in New South Wales, alia that had
been done. The Labor party, wlu-n
they held the balance of poiver, did
nothing for the police but utter good
wishes. They now claimed -credit for
ill! the benefits conferred upon the
police, whom they on occasion described
as "things." The Government had
set out to place the police on a footing
with the New South Wales force, and
had done so.
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