A VETERAN POLICEMAN
FORTY-FOUR YEARS’ SERVICE. London’s police force lost one of its most popular figures when Mr James Billings, Chief Constable at New Scotj land Yard retired at seventy. He is regnrded ns the “father” of the Metro- ' p.-Hinu Police, for he has completed .... years’ service. ! ings went to London as a •' t-nty to seek his fortune in orce. When he began a ’able was out on the streets j pl? of lectures and a book of iii-i; ions. Now the recruit has to undergo ten weeks at a school and is under observation for six months.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20014, 3 December 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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98A VETERAN POLICEMAN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20014, 3 December 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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