Sergeant Bisset

Northland Age, Volume 28, Issue 20, 24 February 1928, Page 4

Sergeant Bisset

Fare welled By Bench and Bar, A Most Valued Officer. Place Hard to Fill. “I understand this is possibly the last time Sergeant Bisset will be here as Clerk of the Court,” said Mr F H Levien in the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday. “I would like to take this opportunity of expressing the goodwill and esteem in which Mr Bisset has been held during his term of office here. I hope that in his ne v sphere of action in Wellington that he will attain to those giddy heights that all good offh :rs aspire to. I know t.iat in whatever position he happens to attain to, that he will carry on in the same standard mat he bar, set while Clerk of the Court and Constable in this

particular district. This is rot a very easy district to administer m view of ttie u y c isiuopoliten tyf.es we get in tie North. Derelicts float or find their way from Au kland and farther south into the North where they can hide their identity and it always reflects the experience and ability of a constable who administers a district like this that there -ire few wno escape from the consequences of crime. An officer stationed here does not get many chances of appe ring in the limelight and he has to carry on conscientiously and wun a sense ot the duty imposed upon hm. Sergeant. Bisset bos been conspicuously successful in administering this district. That is my own impression, and I have always found him quite an excellent officer in die discharge of any duties I have been called upon to supervise or overlook. I wish him every success in his new sphere. If he were six inches shorter I don't know how he could possibly be an Inspector, Superir.de'ndt nt nr Commissioner. (Laughter). It seems to me that unless a man is 6ft he could not aspire to those heights. It seems to me that only Inspectors are big men and in that particular Sergeant Bisset is fully qualified to fill the position of Inspector.” (Applause) Mr. Miller associated himself with his Worshm’s remarks. He expressed appreciation of the consideration shown him by Sergeant Bisset in his practice in this district. His administration of this police district had been excellent and Mr. Miller expressed the hope that Mr. Bisset will succeed in his new office. He was an armament to a Force of which New Z aland had every reason to be justly proud. Mr. J. B. Reynolds endorsed he remarks of the Magistrate and Mr Miller.' He referred to the fact that Mr. Bisset had disciplined the rabble n the North and recited an instance when a couple had created a disturbance in a billiard room and were taken ae in each hand and emptied oui on to the street. Mr. Bisset in addition to being respected i.ad been popular here with the wh fie of the people and it was going to be very hard to replace him. Sergeant Bisset acknowledged the compliments in suitable terms and bespoke for hie successor, Constable Thor.iell the same tieatment that had been accorded himself.