Tardy Acknowledgement.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 135, 18 November 1884, Page 2

Tardy Acknowledgement.

It wilPhe hfoemtieifed^&^'&e Msrton paperi that M«*/Goodall. forr, metty stMrfssec\or ! of the thii district, was.^with a ; jiuraber of otbbrs, lowered m Vanfe some yean ago^ when jrjece bejujr made m the cost of the^ police force of tjhe qotlozfy. The officers 4n qs«2*s tion asked to he allowed to retain theft rank aa; sub-inspsctoi*B|\ cye^, . t Vi tliojugh they should be paid oply at thej same rate as sergeattt-majois. This 'treasonable request was refused by jlhe ihiiii Dofijnce Ministeiv'* We- fat 'the time condemned the conduce of the 'Minister as : harsh and -uijiiisfr r and we cited the case 'of Goodall, one of themost efficient dffifiiM's' oorf r ' ' any } rank m the New £eaWc? police H force. !^ He had worked 'njij'd 'for many ; years,- but had riden ild^ljr'iii-tiid'-' ] service- because he wW ] hot v iuckjr vi enough to be backed 1 bypoliticiH ih^fliience. Ye« , 'after'afi hia endeANwiiirs, > » j he wa^ through no fault of h'isoWh, reduced to the same %raide tts'tie hid " '< 'occupied year-s previously. Wd learn from the Oamaru Mail 'that.it is the intentioff^f the present Deferi6e 'Minuter to l-enfedythe;^' " justice cornmieteil by Hisi'p'i'edeceisoir, at lieast to. some extent. "Qiii contem-, por^ ! s^:~' k^undei^ml'ihi* ; ,„ .it is the ' ln^iitibn; ""orf r the fieife'nee ' ! ! •MiiiWer .'Jljgf Baliance);W'res^;: /(i SerjgfeautiMajor Thpmpsc»n ' and' s&iiiS' ' " other .', police offifcera i to th^eir . fbynier, . : . Panics of snb' iuspec^oVal" We earii^'/; ; estiy' hope ) that. ; ' ■ Goodall; wlio is at present stationed i^ m W'eliingtiw, "will" Be : amongst the : forjiunate o»(ps. . Nobody khowa b^fci :, J ; fcerthan'Mr' Ballance how ab)e and att^jßficer Mr J GoodaU j«,ind ! ; nobody is, better .acquainted 1 feeing of disgust wliich wa^B created m the Wanganui, district whe'd'h©; : was iso ''unjustly disrated. ! ' ' ■"' v ' '' } ' '