POLICE NEEDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 244, 15 October 1935, Page 9

POLICE NEEDED.

PAPAKURA'S LOSS. j RESIDENTS MAKE COMPLAINT. a QUESTION UNDER REVIEW." No decision lias yet been reached by the Police Department regarding tlitf request from Mamirewa that the district should have a resident constable. When the question was referred to Superintendent S. Till, officer in charge of the Auckland district, this monimg, he said that the matter was under discussion with the Minister of Justice Mr Cobbe, and the Commissioner ot Police, Mr. W. 0. Wohlmann. Superintendent Till pointed out tint at present Mamirewa was in a similar position to other districts of the type. It was in the Papakura district, and just outside the boundary of the lapatoetoe district. There were two constables in the district, stationed about four and a half miles from Manurewa, and they patrolled the district from there. , ~ ~ The matter excited further attention, at the meeting of the Mamirewa Town Board last evening, when a number of residents gave details of losses sustained by them through the activities of thieves., Theft of Fowls. Mr. J. Nesfield, of Alfriston Road, reported a loss of poultry to a total value of £200. Recently thieves had broken through a chained and padlocked dooi and stolen 130 laying pullets from breeding stock. He 'phoned the police station at Papakura at 0.30 a.m., but inquiries made later in the day by constables were without result. Later 11 further 07 pullets were stolen. Mr. Xesfield urged that every effort should be made to obtain the appointment of a resident constable, as at present the situation was very serious. Beaumont's Nurseries added a further report that they had suffered serious loss through the theft of bundles of shrubs, etc., left overnight on the platform of the railway station, and of IJewt of young trees which were taken from inside the gate of the nurseries. A letter from Mrs. E. W. Gibberd detailed the theft of tools, valued at £30, from the workshop of her home. Her aviaries had also been tampered with and prize birds, to the value of £20, stolen. She had tried keeping dogs to protect her property, but they had been poisoned. . Members urged that the matter should be given immediate attention.