CONSTABLE DISMISSED
[Peu United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, December 21. R. J. Hannah, a police constable, who was dismissed from the force yesterday, was charged in the Police Court this morning with being in possession of an unregistered revolver. Sub-inspector McCarthy said accused, when questioned at the customary inspection, denied having a revolver in his possession, but one was found at the bottom o fhis box. He said ho had not registered' it because the spring was broken. . Counsel for accused said Hannah was called off his beat yesterday and dismissed on the spot. The sub-inspector said the revolver was the cause not the reason for Hannah’s dismissal. Mr Hunt, S.M., fined accused £1 and costs, saying that had he not been a constable the information might have been dismissed.
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Evening Star, Issue 20055, 21 December 1928, Page 4
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129CONSTABLE DISMISSED Evening Star, Issue 20055, 21 December 1928, Page 4
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