A WELL-KNOWN FIGURE.
COMMISSIONER CULLEN RETIRES
WELLINGTON, October 10
It is announced that Mr John Cullen, Commissioner of Police, retires from the public service on November 23. His time for retirement on the age qualification was due in May last, but he was induced to carry on for another cix months at the request of the Government.
Forty.seven years ago last May Mr Cullen joined the Royal Irish Constabulary as a lad of 18. In 1876 he came out to New Zealand and joined the armed constabulary. The year following he was appointed to regular police duty at Blenheim, and there got his sergeant's stripes. Dunedin, Timaru, and Christchurch wer e Mr Cullen , s next stations, and in 1884 he was promoted to the charge of the Napier district. After spending seven years in Hawke's Bay, Mr Cullen took charge at Wanganui, and a few years later he went to the King Country to try and check the sly-grog selling which was freely carried on. Mr Cullen's work up to this time had been consistently good, and gained him the commendation of hi s superiors, but in the King Country he showed qualities of a special sort, and he was afterwards appointed an inspector. Greymouth was his first charge, and then he came up to Auckland in 1898. Fourteen years of excellent 'service was rendered in this district, and his appointment as Commissioner in 1912 was approved from one end of the colony to the other.
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Northern Advocate, 12 October 1916, Page 1
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