Miscellaneous Information.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXIII, Issue 7, 29 March 1899, Page 62

Miscellaneous Information.

Alterations in Dates of Appointment of Detectives.

The list showing the dates of appointment to the various ranks, vide Police Gazette of 7th December, 1898, is amended as follows :

Detective T. Livingstone’s date of appointment to Detective should be March 31, 1890, instead of August 27, 1879. Detective R. Neill’s date of appointment to Detective should be May 1, 1889, instead of June 1, 1886.

The Commissioner has received with pleasure the following letter from the president of the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition commending Inspector Cullen and the police acting under him at the exhibition : “Inspector Cullen, Police Department, Auckland.

“ Dear Sir, —Now that the exhibition is closed I wish, as president, to express to you the hearty recognition of the executive of the thoroughly efficient manner in which you have safeguarded all the valuable property in the exhibition. From first to last your work has been carried out with the utmost diligence both in the police and detective branches, and it would have been impossible to have done the policework better. I have very great pleasure in expressing myself in this manner, and to assure you that the excellence of your arrangements removed a considerable load of anxiety from my mind when I saw how thoroughly and carefully our interests were attended to.—l am, &c., (98/1925.) - “ B. Kent, President.”

Promotion. Constable William Wilson Smart, No. 169, to be sergeant, from the Ist April, 1899. (99/508.)

Rewards.

Detective F. J. Bishop, No. 632, Palmerston North, and Constables J. Shearman, No. 534, and W. J. Campbell, No. 813, Wanganui, have been awarded £3 each from the Reward Fund, in recognition of their services in obtaining convictions against bookmakers for laying totalisator odds at the Wanganui races. (99/472.)

The sum of £SO offered by the Carrington Co-operative Coal Shipping Company of Newcastle, New South Wales, for the arrest of Frank Butler, charged with fraudulently appropriating moneys of the company, has been apportioned as follows: £25 to the detectives at Sydney, who supplied the information which led to the offender’s arrest on board the s.s. “Mariposa” at Auckland, and the remaining £25 to the police at the latter port —viz., £4 to Chief Detective M. Grace, No. 73; £7 to Detective W. Maddern, No. 471; £7 to Constable T. W. Boddam, No. 537 ; £5 to Constable H. P. Kennedy, No. 713; and £2 to Constable C. R. Broberg, No. 689. (98/2174.)

The Commissioner of Trade and Customs has awarded the following sums to members of the Port Chalmers police

concerned in the seizure of opium, and prosecution of Kee Let for smuggling the same, on the 27th ultimo : Constable T. A. Evenden, No. 647, £25 ; Sergeant M. J. Geerin, No. 110, £7 ; and Constable G. A. McQuarrie, No. 835, £2. (99/406.) Sergeant J. S. Bernard, No. 306, has been awarded £3 for services in obtaining convictions for sly-grog selling against two Maoris at Meremere. (99/393.) Constable J. Smith, No. 648, Gisborne police, has been awarded £1 for arresting an absentee from H.M.S. “ Mildura.” (99/19.) Constables W. H. McAnerin, No. 364, Mokau, and W. G. Grey, No. 510, New Plymouth, have been granted £5 and £2 respectively for obtaining convictions against sly-grog sellers. (99/545.) Constable A. Cruickshank, No. 281, Lower Hutt police, has been awarded £2 2s. by the Telegraph Department for obtaining convictions against four boys for breaking insulators. (99/453.) Constable D. McLeod, No. 799, Wellington police, has been awarded £2 2s. by the Telegraph Department for obtaining a conviction against a boy for breaking an insulator. (99/458.)