Working South

NZ Truth, Issue 1204, 27 December 1928, Page 4

Working South

IN addition to giving New Zealand a liberal rainfall and a lot of coal, the West Coast has endowed the country with a heap of hard-headed men, and not the least of these is Harry -Nuttal. For twenty years. Harry, has served his country as a member of the Police Department, and has completed eight years' honorable service as a detective. Harry is as deep, as the ocean— too deep for the average newspaper man put on to. write up a crime— and lie thinks about three times as hard as the criminal he Is stalking. Harry was one of the most popular detectives while stationed m Wellington,' and while there came prominently, under review for his work m connection with a series of State departmental' frauds. For the past fifteen months Harry has been stationed at Tima.ru, and 1 if his record for detected crime m that district were emulated throughout the service, society would take a new lease of lif«. •lie has recently been , rewarded by promotion to the . rank of detective-sergeant at Dunedin, and the day the news was announced, the teler graph messenger at Timaru wore out a track from the post office to Harry's house bearing messages of goodwill from the West Coasters with whom Harry has spent his boyhood days. Dunedin has gained a likeable and efficient detective m the promotion of Harry Nuttal. .