POLICE RETIREMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14341, 13 January 1911, Page 5

POLICE RETIREMENTS.

SUB4NBPBOTOB GBfIHN. AFTER 83 YEABfl' SBRVICa, . Like Iruipeotor O'Brien, of Dunedfa, Sub-Inspector Green, -woo hut been in charge of the Tuncru Polioe Station for the put five years, received news on Wednesday ajiteraaga Which oame as a great surprise to him, this being an intimation that at the end of April next he would be-retired on superannuation. Interviewed by a "Herald" reporter lost evening. Sub-Inspector Green said tliat from what he know at present ho would receive three month» r leave of absenoo' from next month. ' The usual age of retirement was 68 years, and us ho was only- 61, he found it difficult to understand the Department'* attitude. Ho felt quite'as fit and aa well now ashe did ten or twenty yfiare ago. and moreover, if he had been allowed to remain in the eorvice, for the other four yours, he would have, boon ontitled to receive the full benefit of the superannuation scheme. As tt Wo» ho would be deprived of about £27 a Further questioned, he said that bo bad booh 88 years' sorvioo, having joined the force as a wmstablo ,in Dunedin in 1874. Ho had hsd many experiences of a varied nature on utt Otogo goldfields, where as a mounted constable ho hod to do a lot of WoMi, and undergo hardships the Lite of jrD'M seldom fell to the lot of the ordtaivry police officer now-a-days. Ho find b»W> stationed in Lnwrenoe, Hampden, PM» mcrston nnd Baloluthft, being promoted while in the last-named town to the rank of wirgean*. In this capacity ho afterwards served in Lawrenoe, Nnsobv and Wostport. TOn. wolf* vonrs aoo, being promoted to the raiilt of sub-inspector, he was appointed to tnltc charge of the Timaru station, and from bore went down *« I»5«*J , W u j; where ho had the Southland distrto* nnder his oontrol. _ After rcmafnitiK there for four years ho was transferred bnelc to Timaru. . , u Tn reply to inquiries as to Who hW successor mieht bo, Sub-Inspector Green said that though he was not sure, lie thought an extra seracaat would be appointed in this distnot, loßvine his vncancy unfilled. Th-s. ho Iboucht, if it enme shout, would bo pnrt of the IVpnrimont's policy in the Bchemo of retrenchment.