POPULAR POLICE OFFICER
CONSTABLE M'ANERIN RETIRES.
T\fter"*forty-one years in tie New Zealand Police Force, Constable W. H. M'Anerin, who has been stationed at Karori for nearly thirteen years, is retiring on superannuation, and to-night the residents of Kniou will assemble in the old Borough Council Chambers, to testify publicly to the high esteem in which he is held. During his many years' service, Constable M'Aneiin has passed through same stirring episodes. , Joining the Armed Constabulary on 9th September, 1831, lie served in No. 5 Company under Captain Gordon, and was a participant in the raj'1 at Parihaka. With others, he was afterwards transferred to Pukearuhe (White Cliffs), and in 1884 he took up civil police duty in Wellington. Serving in Wellington for five years, Constable M'Anevin in' 1892 went to Westport, where he was stationed for nearly a year. Ahout this time New Plymouth .was troubled with housebreakers, .and . people were also being bailed up and robbed, so Constable -M'Anerin was sent up there to arrest the offender. He remained ia New Plymouth from 28th April, 1893, untjt 15th April, 1896, when, owing to drunkenness and disorderly conduct amongst Natives and Europeans in the King -Country, the Police Department decidedNto open a station at the Mokau. To this station Constable M'Auerin was d-etailed for duty, and many and varied were the experiences he had. At that time the country was roadless, and there wero.no bridges. There was no other constable nearer than Waitara, which was 47 miles away, and Constable M'Anerin on long journeys very often had to ford rivers through quicksand, and pass around dangerous points on thie sea coast. In April, 1904, ho moved to Otaki, and on 27th May, 1908, he came back to Wellington, bsing appointed, to Thorndon-.quay. Constable M'Anerin was stationed at Thorn-don-qnay until 3rd August, 1909, when he was ti-ansferred to Karori, where he has served ever. since. Consta-ble M'Anerin has always beeii a very popular officer with the people of Karori; and the conscientious manner in which he has. at all times carried out hi« duties has earned for him the respect of all with whom he has come in contact.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 125, 30 May 1922, Page 11
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358POPULAR POLICE OFFICER Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 125, 30 May 1922, Page 11
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