Police call in bailiff

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33779, 27 February 1975, Page 2

Police call in bailiff

(New Zealand Press Association) WANGANUI, February 26. The police will not now be involved in the seizing of $331 worth of goods from a Taihape farmer’s property.

The action was to have followed the serving of a civil distress warrant on Mr P. G. Clark for goods worth the money he owes on his daughter’s teaching famnd. Mr Clark was summonsed for refusing to pay the bill about four months ago. Superintendent Bryan Dean said today the warrant would be taken back and executed through the bailiff at the Marton Court. He emphasised that earlier reports gave the wrong impression. The policeman involved in serving the warrant was not acting as a policeman but as

a bailiff, he said. “He was therefore ani instrument of the court. The] police in their ordinary! sphere of duty do not handle the enforcement of civil debts,” Mr Dean said. The police acted as bailiffs only in the more remote areas. Mr Dean said that when the warrant was executed by] the Marton bailiff the police! would “give any assistance! required to ensure there is no I breach of the peace.” Mr Clark has said that he will offer no resistance.

Overseas loan. — Another New Zealand overseas loan is under negotiation — this time in New York. Private banking sources in New York were unable to detail the probable amount of the loan or the likely interest rate. — (P.A.)