MURDERED CONSTABLE
RELIEF ASKED FOR WIDOW “CASE WILL BE GENEROUSLY TREATED” (By Telegraph—-Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 24. Mr F. Lye (Coalition, Waikato) asked the Minister in charge of the Police Department, the Hon. J. G. Cobbc, in the House of Representatives to-day, if he was able to acquaint the House of the relief likely to be granted by the Government to the widow and children of the late Constable Heaps, Morrinsville, who was shot by a Maori who was being questioned by him. Mr Cobbc replied that the Government deeply regretted the occurrence and sympathetic consideration would be given to the question of granting financial assistance to Constable Heaps’ widow and family. It was not possible then to state the measure of assistance, but members' could rest assured the case would bo treated no less generously than similar eases in the past.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 25 October 1934, Page 4
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142MURDERED CONSTABLE Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 25 October 1934, Page 4
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