FORTY-THREE YEARS' SERVICE
POLICE SUPERINTENDENT'S RETIREMENT (Pee United Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 1. Superintendent A. T. Emerson, who has been attached to the police force for 43 years and who has been stationed in Wellington since 1920, will retire on March 3, 1936, and will enter on three months' retiring leave on December 3. Superintendent Emerson joined the police force at the age of 21 in 1892, nad shortly afterwards was sent to Invereargill and later to Arrowtown. He was proftioted to the Tank of sergeant in 1906 and was stationed at Dunedin and then at Ashburton. While at the latter town he reached the rank of senior sergeant in 1915. In 1917 he was transferred to Wellington, and in 1919 became a subinspector, reaching the rank of inspector two years later. He was transferred to Whangarei to take charge of the police district there, and in February. 1926, he was promoted to the rank of superintendent and came to Wellington.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22718, 2 November 1935, Page 10
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