BONISCH REINSTATED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18616, 11 July 1930, Page 3

BONISCH REINSTATED

PENALTY TOO SEVERE. By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, July 10. The Minister of Justice (Hon. J. G. Cobbe) announces that Senior-Ser-geant George Bonisch, who was dismissed by the late Commissioner of Police (Mr W. B. Mclllveney), for alleged breaches of the Police Regulations, has been reinstated. In outlining his story of the case, the Minister scid:—“Ex-Sergeant 3onisch was dismissed from the Force on 15th June,'on the recommendation of the Commissioner of Police, approval to which was given by my predecessor in charge of the Police Department. Formal notice of appeal was sent to me by ex-Sergear.t Bonisch, and numerous representations were made to me by other persons that this officer had been harshly deall- - I went into the whole papers carefully myself. From these papers, and from further information received by me, I was of opinion that the punishment was too severe, and that the case was one in which further inquiry should be made. I referred the matter to the Public Service Commissioner ~nd the Solicitor-General, and they that it should be reviewed by an informal appeal board, consisting of a Magistrate, and ex-member of the Police Force, and an outsider, with a view to submitting a recommendation to me as Minister of Justice ps to whether the punishment of dismissal was in their opinion warranted.” The reinstatement of Sergeant Bonisch was the result of the inquiry.