OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 10, 12 July 1922, Page 6

OBITUARY

DETECTIVE - SERGEANT ANDREWS

' A very well-known police officer, Detective-Sergeant Andrews, who took suddenly seriously ill on Saturday, and who was removed to the hospital for treatment, passed' away at that institution last night about midnight. Detective Arthur E. Andrews was born oh the West, Coast in 1873, was appointed constable in 1902, was transferred to Auckland in 1906, transferred to. Napier in 1907, . appointed acting-detective and transferred to Wellington in. July, 190], and he has been .in Wellington ever since. .He was appointed detective in 1910, and was promoted to the rank of detectivesergeant in 1917. The", late Detective Andrews, who was regarded as an excellent police officer, was highly respected. He leaves a widow, three sonsj and one daughter to mourn their loss.

A GRACEFUL TRIBUTE. Referring to the late Detective-Ser-geant Andrews, Inspector M'llvemey said to-day :—'; His serious illness, when he was believed to be in a robust state of bealthj was quite unexpected, and the news of liis death .came a. a shock to both officers and men of the Wellington police. He will be missed from among them. He was a hard-working, honesty sympathetic official, who did his duty both to tlie satisfaction of the Department and to the general public. He was one of the ablest detectives, not only in Wellington, but probaby in the Dominion. During lateT years at Wellington he was entrusted with the investigation of the more serious complaints on the criminal side; and he carried out his duties in a highly satisfactory and kindly way. His sympathy and consideration were notable on every occasion when he placed before the Court the career of a person who was called up for sentence. On no occasion did he ever fdil to give the unfortunate prisoner the benefit of every conceivable consideration that could be extended to him by a police official. He will, as I have said, be sadly missed from the force here."