LOSS TO THE POLICE.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 105, 3 May 1919, Page 8

LOSS TO THE POLICE.

DI-'ATH OF SF.NIOU-rsKIiGKAXT ( KF.AN. Hv l In- denii-c of Senior Sergeant I. >" ( nun i-ay- a Wellington paper) tire X.-w Zealand police Ims 10-t one of its m.-st • tlie-i--in mi.l highly popular none .minis-.i,mi ,i officer-. A mnn of keen , I-'- 'l-i. be always carried out his I dii'ie- in .. wholly conscientious mann -r. doluy Ihe greatest cn-tlit to the fore.-, in which he had served for twentyfour ■.-•iir.s, having enter,-.1 the ranks as a .-.iii-t.il.lt. ou March .">, IK'.lj. During tie epidemic of November last lie worked e\( dingly hard, and even when li ■ .-.i.-it r.-ic t.-.l the malady himself he |» r-.-t.- I in remaining at his plfst rnth-r tii,in take- to his bed, with the re - til ; iat his health remained more or 1"'-- impair.-.]. Born in Kngland, of In-'i parent age. the late- Senior-Sergeant < !'• nil i line oul to N.-w Zcaliiiid when quite i, child. Ilis father was a serpen"' major in the Uriiish Army, and t i:" i ipic.-d in Ihe Maori War,' s U bs,.. m. nlly becoming a s, bo..lma-ter in the lara-uiki province. After h.- joined tho V 'lie-, tiie .1,-easel did ,luiy at Auc-k----li'i-l and Kawakawa. remaining at the "■ci" p'.aee for -iv years. M,, was prone t-.l -rtreant in f)r mb.-r. 1007, and I-H---I- it.-d to Auckland, where- he was stationed fo, Here,, years. |„ ,-hargi- '■' I I" I iinnie- -ul, district for six ve-ar- '" -v- P--m..,.-,l -crib,,- -■„,_„„;, ,„' M ceil I. 1017, ,111,1 Kllenvill.fi Klli.-ln. ;V'"' ! ' ',"" l),w at "•'" , ' "'"'■ -\" -i police nllicial Senior. P're-ant ''re.in had an unblemished an I enviable record, and his popularity a.-..0i-L' all rank- of th,- for,-,- and the ; ■■',:,■• L','ll,• rally was most marked. lie 1,-.i\cs , widow and four daughters.