Long-service Awards

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32314, 4 June 1970, Page 12

Long-service Awards

Fifteen .long-service wards were presented at a police parade in t|ih King Edward Barracks yesterday. For two m6n it was their last jiblite parade in Chris,trhurch. Constable H. L. HygWes X&< ceived his clasp and<siar for 28 years and. Ave months ser-

vice He retired from the. police on the same day. |. Chief Superintendent G. S., Austing—'Who presented Con- 1 stable Hughes with his clasp, and star—was also attending; his last police parade in Christchurch. Mr Austing will later this* month take charge of the Auckland police district. The assembled police included Detective Superintendent F. A. Gordon, who is shortly to take over as officer-

in-charge, Dunedin; and Detective Inspector E. T. Mitten, officer in charge of the Beard murder inquiry, who is to take over control of the C. 1.8. in the south of the South Island. Constable A. H. Stapleton, of Christchurch, was presented with his clasp and star for 35 years of police service. Others who received long service awards were: 21 years —Sergeant R. G. Gar'gett and Constable Rosalie Sterritt; 28 years—Constable H. A. Plumridge; 14 years—lnspector W. J. Perring, Sergeant R. J. Crooks, Sergeant J. D. Burrell, Constables R. H. Moore, W. H. McCallum, D. J. J. Back, L. M. Griffiths, J. S. Brailey, J. G. M. Lardner, and Detective J. L. Marshall. Senior Sergeant W. J. Prentice and Constable L. J. Peterson, one of New Zealand’s first police dog handlers. were also to receive their 114-year long-service award, but were unable to attend the i parade.