RESIGNATION REFUSED
CONSTABLE BEFORE COURT LEFT FORCE FOR BUSINESS (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH. Jan. 29. A police constable, David Arthur Bowick, was fined £lO in the Magistrate's Court to-day for resigning from the Police Force on December 31 without express authority from the Minister in Charge of Police. Inspector Carroll, in evidence, said that Constable Bowick tendered his resignation in November, as he had bought a business. Hs had been 13 years in the force. The Minister had refused to accept the resignation. Since Bowick s resignation had been received two other constables had been allowed to resign. Bowick. in evidence, said that a despicable act on the part of the police authorities when he was a relieving constable at Woolston last year made him think that the police had little further use for him. He started in business on January 1. Counsel for Bowick contended that the ruling of Mr Justice Fair in the Kilgour case in Auckland affected Bowick's case, but this view was not accepted by the magistrate, who imposed a fine of £lO.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24828, 30 January 1942, Page 8
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