MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLIV, Issue 15, 16 April 1919, Page 244

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

Appointments as Constable. No. 2100. Anderson, Robert. Ist December, 1918. No. 2101. Thompson, John. 12th February, 1919. No. 2102. Marks, Henry Joseph. 13th February, 1919. No. 2103. Barnes, Alec. Howard. 13th February, 1919. No. 2104. Chant, Manson Waterson. Ist April, 1919. No. 2105. Sargent, Henry. sth April, 1919.

Resignations. No. 2035. Constable Leslie, William. 10th March, 1919. No. 1992. Constable Collins, Thomas Francis. 14th March, 1919. No. 2070. Constable Mitchell, Frederick Ernest. 16th March, 1919. No. 1729. Constable O’Sullivan, Denis John. 25th March, 1919. No. 1965. Constable Timlin, Hugh Felix. 28th March, 1919. No. 1910. Constable Cox, Thomas William. 31st March 1919. No. 1579. Constable Lambert, George. 21st March, 1919. No. 1685. Constable Williams, Harrie Ernest Gel 1. 31st March, 1919. No. 888. Constable Doyle, Myles. 31st March, 1919.

Promotion. To be Sergeant from Ist February, 1919. No. 1174. Constable Brown, Samuel Adam.

Retirement on Pension under Section 35, Public Service Classification and Superannuation Act , 1908. No. 172. Constable Pool, William. 22nd March, 1919.

Damage to Slot Telephones. The following copy of a memorandum received from the Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department, is published for the information of members of the Force. J. O’Donovan, Commissioner of Police. Wellington, 7th April, 1919. (P. 19/748.)

General Post Office, Wellington, 4th April, 1919. Memorandum for the Commissioner of Police, Wellington.] I should be glad if you would bring under the notice of all police officers at the chief centres Rule 1070 (a) of this Department, offering a reward of £5 to the police officer securing a conviction against any person guilty of wilful damage to coin-in-the slot telephones, or of stealing money therefrom.

Owing to the increasing number of instances on which the cabinets are being put to improper and filthy use, the telephones are rendered unfit for conversation, and the public are complaining of their insanitary condition. As the telephones serve a great public convenience in times of emergency, calls for a doctor, fires, &c., it is the endeavour of the Department to provide an efficient service, but its efforts are considerably hampered by the constantly occurring abuses to which both the telephones and cabinets are subjected. Any action on the part of your officers to assist the Department would be much appreciated. W. R. Morris, Secretary.

Rule 1070 (a). — Abuse of Coin-in-the-slot Telephone: Reward to Police Officer. In order to encourage the detection of persons who are guilty of wilful damage to ooin-in-the-slot telephones, or of stealing money therefrom, or of any other abuse for which a conviction is recorded, the Department will pay to the police officer concerned a gratuity of £5 for each of such conviotions obtained through his efforts. [P. & T. 72/88.]

Clerk of Magistrate's Court appointed. (See New Zealand Gazette, 1919, page 976.) Constable George Sivyer has been appointed to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Otautau.

Inspectors of Factories appointed. (See New Zealand Gazette, 1919, page 976.) Constable Peter Christian Berthelsen, Constable William Stuart Boyle, Gonstable John William Kennedy, Constable Thomas Mahoney, Sergeant James Alexander Mathew, Constable Robert Reid Millar, Constable Leslie Gordon Newman, and Constable George Sivyer have been appointed to be Inspectors of Factories.

Police-gaoler appointed. (See New Zealand Gazette, 1919,.page 976.) Constable Timothy James Cummings has been appointed to be Police-gaoler at Whakatane.