The Police Commission.
(BY TELEGEAPH.) Wellington, May 20. When the Police Commission resumed, it was reported that the man Rnmsay bad been locked up on a charge of being drunk and disorderly in the streets between 3 and 4 a.m. Constable O'Rourke therefore replied to the charges in Rumsay's absence, giving a categorical denial to all except that he did once play a game of cribb3go in a hotel. He had yet to learn that this was an offence against the police regulations. The fact was that he had performed his duties too well, and there was complaint against him because of it. He desired to say that he had never been stationed at Mount Cook Barracks, as implied in a newspaper report. On turning up the evidence, the Commissioner stated that O'Rourke's name had never been mentioned in connection with charges against constables there. He considered that he was the most overworked constable in New Zealand, and it was by pressing this on the attention of the authorities that he got promotion. He never appealed to any political or religious influence, and never used any intrigues to get back to Otaki, as the papers in the case would show.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7215, 20 May 1898, Page 3
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