FURTHER CHARGE
ACTION BY DEPARTMENT
CONSTABLE WHO LEFT
FORCE
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, August 17. Constable Douglas George Murray Kilgour, aged 24, who on Wednesday was convicted by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., for a breach of the recently-enacted Police Force Emergency Regulations by resigning his office on August 2 without express authority in • writing from the Minister in Charge of the Police Department, is now to be charged under the departmental regulations. Under the provisions of the1 Police Force Act he will be charged as an officer convicted in a court of justice. The proceedings will be departmental and will be heard ,in camera towards the end of this week.
Kilgour gave notice of his resignation on July 1, 1941, and at the end of the month, failing receipt of a reply from the Minister, absented himself from duty. The Minister refused to accept the resignation. The officer stated in Court that he had entered the Royal New Zealand Air Force and was studying for examinations. He was very keen to go overseas and said he was determined to carry out his intentions. --'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 6
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182FURTHER CHARGE Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 6
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