OBITUARY
SENIOR SERGEANT D. AUSTIN
Senior .Sergeant Donald Austin who has died in Wellington, was one of the six police officers presented with the King's Police Medal He received the decoration when as a sergeant in Hamilton in November, 1940, he rescued a woman from drowning in the Waikato River After joining the police force in April, 1916, Senior Sergeant Austin was stationed at Invercargill Greymouth, Dunedin, Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga and Wellington He was aged 51 at the time of his death
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 228, 25 September 1943, Page 6
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82OBITUARY Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 228, 25 September 1943, Page 6
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