POLICE OFFICER TO RETIRE

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28530, 8 March 1958, Page 11

POLICE OFFICER TO RETIRE

! Mr P. Munro, Of Auckland "The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, March 7 The retirement of Mr Peter Munro. Assistant-Commissioner of Police and superintendent of police for the Auckland district will take effect from March 23 Before he joined the force in October. 1919, he had already served in the Scottish police at Clydebank and the Australian police at Perth. He has the distinction of having won more than 40 New Zealand amateur athletic titles. He was supreme in the shot put and hammer throw from 1919 to 1936 In that period he also gained two national javelin titles. Mr Munro first competed in New Zealand athletics, but as a professional, in Timaru in 1914. World War I interrupted his career, and he left New Zealand in the Fifth Reinforcements. He served in the Ist Auckland Battalion, gained a commission and was wounded at Passchendaele. On returning to New Zealand, along with other men who had aerved, he was reinstated as an amateur and began his long series of championships. In 1922 he put the shot 46ft Ilin at Lancaster Park, Christchurch. That record stood for nearly a quarter of a century. . He began in the Police Force in Wellington, and served successively in Hastings, Auckland, Whangarei, Palmerston North, Police Headquarters in Wellington. and Auckland. He was made superintendent in Auckland in March, 1952, and assistant commissioner in December, 1953.