POLICE LAUNCH.
(To lue Editor.) Sir, —It will be difficult to find two better instances for the demand of an oil launch for the use of our water police than the finding of the two bodies lately on our foreshore—one at Rangitoto, and the other at Cheltenham. In the former case an hour and a-half was lost by the police in trying to hire a launch, and when one was. obtained it required more oil, which was after some dilliculty obtained (was it a fishing launch?). The second body had to be carted to Victoria wharf, and lay there some time, until a launch could be again hired at Auckland, the Ferry Company rightly refusing to carry the remains. All this unnecessary handling of a gruesome body could have been avoided by a police launch taking the remains from the beach and towing it in a suitable boat behind the launch, where it would not upset the hea.HU of our police who are only human, and hav.B .suffered before from such work.—l am, etc., CHAS. E. DACKJi.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 255, 25 October 1907, Page 2
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177POLICE LAUNCH. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 255, 25 October 1907, Page 2
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