PARADE OF POLICE
TRIBUTE TO DEAD C OMRADE By Telegraph —Press Association DUNEDIN, January 3. A sight rare in Dunedir- was witnessed to-night when 70 members of the Dunedin Police Force paraded at the Public Hospital and then escorted the body of the late Constable James Butler back to the Central Police Station. Constable Butler died on Sunday morning from the effect of kicks in the vicinity of the kidneys when helping to arrest a drunken man last week. The coffin was despatched north to-night for Waipukurau, where Constable Butler previously resided and where the burial will take place.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20926, 4 January 1938, Page 6
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