Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXI, Issue 2, 20 January 1897, Page 14

Miscellaneous Information.

Resignations. First-class Sergeant Richard Gamble, No. 28. Second-class Sergeant John McMahon, No. 206.

Discharge on Compensation, Constable David Shaw, No. 89.

Dismissals. Constable Timothy McCarthy, No. 317 Constable Thomas Quirke, No. 627.

Rewards

Constable J. Poland, No. 687, Wellington police, has been awarded £5 from the Reward Fund for having at great personal risk stopped a runaway horse attached to a buggy in which were two children. (97/22.) Sergeant E. Macdonell, No. 179, and Constable J. Burrows, No. 497, Invercargill police, have been awarded £2 and £3 respectively for services in obtaining a conviction against Annie Cox, fined £3O and costs for sly-grog selling at Cromarty. (97/57.)

Constable T. Griffith, No. 433, Balclutha Police, has been awarded £4 for obtaining convictions against W. Hay and J. Anderson for sly grog-selling. (96/1649.)

Accidents or Injuries to Members of the Force to be reported immediately.

(Circular No. 2/97.) It is notified for general information and guidance that in future when any member of the Force meets with any accident or injury, when on or off duty, an immediate report of all the circumstances in connection with the matter is to be made through the Inspector in charge of the district to this office.

By order.

Wellington, 15th January, 1897

A. Hume, Commissioner of Police,

Dog-tax not to be collected by Police,

(Circular No. 3/97.) For some time past it has been the custom for the police to assist the County Councils and borough authorities by collecting the dog-tax for them in some localities at a small remuneration, but, as it has been found that this duty often brings the police in contact with the people in an undesirable way, and possibly deprives some unemployed persons of a small annual income, it has been decided that in future this tax will not be collected by the police, and Inspectors are directed to so inform their subordinates, who are to make immediate arrangements for handing over this work, and prevent any such duty being undertaken by members of the Force in future. Circular No. 7/91 is hereby cancelled.

By order.

Wellington, 15th January, 1897,

A. Hume, Commissioner of Police. (97-65.)

Penalties for supplying Liquor to Female Aboriginal Natives. (Circular No. 4/97.) The attention of the department having been called to a statement that some leading Maoris are in the habit, when Maori meetings take place at their settlements, of obtaining a quantity of beer and supplying it for indiscriminate consumption to both sexes of their race, it is notified for general information and guidance that, in accordance with section 24, “ Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act Amendment, 1895,” “ Any person who sells or in any way gives or supplies, or allows to be sold, given, or supplied, any liquor to any female aboriginal native whomsoever, commits an offence, and is liable to a penalty of not less than two nor more than ten pounds : provided that this section shall not apply to any female aboriginal being the wife of a European.” Inspectors are directed to issue such instructions as they may deem necessary to insure this clause being given effect to, and any person found disobeying it is to be at once prosecuted. By order.

A. Hume, Commissioner of Police. (97/66.)

Wellington, 15th January, 1897

Reports

(Circular No. 5/97.) The attention of all concerned is called to Police Regulation No. 81, and reports from subordinate members of the Force should commence and conclude as follows : Report of Ist Class Sergeant Thomas Atkins, No. 2001, relative to—- ********

“ Thomas Atkins, “ Ist Class Sergeant, No. 2001.”

By order,

A. Hume, Commissioner of Police,

Wellington, 19th January, 1897