NEW POLICE CHIEF

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1013, 2 July 1930, Page 10

NEW POLICE CHIEF

APPOINTMENT STILL UNDE? CONSIDERATION RUMOURS FROM WELLINGTON 7"// A .St A 3 Pa.'Ho w<c>. fc.y Peporu- ■ | PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Todaj 1 As far as can be ascertained at T 1 ' ent. in Wellington the question o{T 1 i appointment of a new police conT 1 sioner is still under consideration*; ; even rile Minister of justice ha*7| definite ideas on the subject. He stall yesterday that the question had yet been fully considered. Gossip in Wellington is purely sje ; lative at present and no clear jj, i ■ exists as to the possibilities. One e , spoken of, however, is Mr. 11. Madd. secretary to the police m paruns who for some years now has contnjw I a fair portion of the ad ministry, I j side and who has other qualificafiajl I for the position. Superintendent Wohlmann. of Am. s land, is among ihe speculations and, is Inspector D. J. Cummings, of Xapi* One difficulty about appointing sor 1 of the higher officers of the servi-j is that nrost of them have but fet time to run before retiring on supert nuatiou. It is felt among the police that til appointment, as has been sugsestetri a milkary man would not be popol* j Major-General R. A. Young's Udmer, mentioned some time ago in mnad but the rumours have not yet be? ! revived. So far indications are tk \ one of the police officers may get U position, but then there is the qaeJ tion of an outside appointment, fc*] example, a man from England, to tel considered.