MB. J.F. BARLOW.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13651, 7 February 1910, Page 8

MB. J.F. BARLOW.

Mr John Franck Barlow;.J^jjgll at his residence, Ashborioß, « £"r_§B at the a«e of 70 waa better know_*-« f.jWffiW and at the tune -rf^J** the police force inhad the longest' aemeft ff**?* "**_3_B officer in the New oa he bad been avmrajf.- : police work in bury since 1864. Ha left of the old that is, he joined the bourne about June 26tb, l*36fcA';ME*|| missioner Shearman, then in New Zealand,-had asked dent Bowker, of Melbourne, 93KK suitable men for the. «cw «MSS police force, and Mr *«•'«« of the men thus enrolled. Yot wSm low remained in Christ-church •"SySBW months, and was then sent to **SgffJ| ton. After about a year at Vf iU *'SM he received his sergeant's <»trjpef«. < '*gB returned to Christchurch- *i-jS'-M twelve months he remained at, V"-yS___[ church in charge of the men. Sergeant Barlow th«,«M charge of the Kaiapoi * t ** l ?"£S9 after one or two months at ii f**rltf&m was transferred to Leithfield («__"llJ| Rangiora) in 1866. After two Leithfield, Sergeant Bartow «mi| turned to Chrifltchnrch, and *>*<fiS two or three -months m charge «*!■ ■watch-house. He was then •_*& *?____ ferred to Kaiapoi, where be for a year and ten months, left to take charge of the ?WSJ3EM lished station at Leeston in ■l gw *jaM remained at Leeston tui ,jteM when a station was at Southbridge, and he .J» I transferred there, with one IHe remained at Southbridge.<*«£§£■ five years, returning again to *^g v *tj church, where he was on g*f Be **gj*j| for about a year. He was then tngßl ferred to Rangiora. Arter years service at "Rangiora. be to Christchurch in 1890 and «M being in charge of the station <V*3f street duty here *or ahont was transferred to the Ashburtaß mg. j tion in 1896, and remaned in ■*%£ ! for over eight years. Since Barlow had lived in leaves a family of grown-up -■'?■