Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 12, 5 June 1889, Page 110

Miscellaneous Information.

Appointment as Constable. Henry Ernest Felton. No. 545.

Rewards,

The sum of £8 has been awarded to Constable Edward Lamb, Auckland Police, for the arrest of John J. Godden, a deserter from Her Majesty’s ship “ Dart.”

The sum of £5 12s. 6d. has been awarded by the Customs Department to Detective William L. Clirystal, Wellington Police, in recognition of his services in connection with the prosecution of Henry Day and Charles George, fined £3 each for smuggling 201 b. of tobacco.

The sums of £5, £3, and £2 respectively have been awarded to Constables Charles Hogg, Douglas Gordon, and Jonas Abrams, Kamo, Whangarei, and Waipu Police, in recognition of their services in connection with the prosecution of A. Myall, J. Lang, D. McLeod, Mary Simpson, James Featherston, and Hugh Haswell, convicted of sly grog-selling. Myall was fined £ls and costs on three charges, Lang £ls and costs on two charges, McLeod £lO and costs on one charge, Simpson £lO and costs on one charge, Featherston £lO and costs on two charges, and Haswell £lO and costs on one charge.

The sums of £4 and £2 have been awarded by the Customs Department to Sergeant Edward Wilson and Constable Joseph D. Grockatt, Akaroa Police, in recognition of their services in connection with the conviction of J. Beecher and J. Cooper for broaches of “ The Beer Duty Act, 1880.”

The sum of £5 has been awarded by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society to Constable Charles Cooper, Masterton Police, in recognition of the active interest taken by him in the prosecution of persons for dynamiting trout in the Waipoua Stream.

Memorandum for Resident Magistrates.

Paragraph 2 of Circular No. 7 of the 12th April last is cancelled from the date hereof, and the following paragraph substituted in lieu thereof :

2. Vouchers for bailiffs’ mileages for sums not exceeding 10s. will be sent to this office, in duplicate, in the same manner as before the issue of the Treasury notice of the 12tli March. After having been checked they will be forwarded by this office to the respective post offices for payment. To prevent multiplication of vouchers, the instruction contained in Circular No. 19 of the Ist October, 1887, as to rendering claims for mileages once a month must be strictly adhered to.

I take this opportunity of pointing out that in criminal cases, where processes are served by constables, such constables are entitled only to a refund of the actual and necessary expenses incurred by them, as laid down in the Police

Regulations. The mileage should be converted into stamps and affixed to the proper documents, and claims for expenses sent to this office. This direction is issued because it is found that in some districts a practice prevails of collecting the mileage and paying it over to the constable serving the process. By order. C. J. A. Haselden, Under-Secretary. Department of Justice, Wellington, 23rd May, 1889.