LEFT POLICE FORCE
CONSTABLE CHARGED BREACH OF REGULATIONS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Constable Douglas George Murray Kilgour, aged 24, who on Wednesday was convicted by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., l'or a breach of the recently enacted police force emergency reguh.Ums, 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 the Police Force Act, he will be charged as an officer who has been convicted in a court of justice. The proceedings will be departmental and will be heard in camera towards the end of this week. Constable Kilgour gave notice of his resignation on July 1, 1941, and, at the end of the month, failing the receipt of a reply from the Minister, he 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, he said, he was determined to carry out his intentions.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20637, 18 August 1941, Page 4
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