POLICEMEN’S FUNERAL
Church Crowded For Service (N.Z. Pres* Association) AUCKLAND, January 9. In their different generations the two police officers killed in Sunday’s shooting incident at Waitakere had enhanced the place of the Police Force in this country, said the Rev. G. A. Jeffreys, speaking at their combined funeral service in Auckland today. Mr Jeffreys, minister of St. James’s Presbyterian Church, conducted the service at St. David’s. With him were the Rev. J. M. Mullane of St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, New Lynn, and the Rev. A. R. Anderson, of St. Peter’s Anglican Church. Onehunga. The police officers, who were buried in adjoining graves at Purewa cemetery, were Detective - Inspector Wallace Chalmers and Detec-tive-Sergeant Neville Power. The church was filled and large numbers listened to the services from the porch. Crowds waited in the street outside and lined the footpaths along Khyber Pass as the procession moved off.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30026, 10 January 1963, Page 13
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