POLICE PROMOTION
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Detective To Sergeant
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AHCKLAND, Last Night. The tran.sfer to ihe uniform branch of thc polico 011 promotion, to the rank of sergeant, of Detective H. E. Coddingtop, ofc Auckland, is announced. Sergeant Goddington, who joincd the polico forco at Wellington on December 1, 1921, has renderod distinguished service as a dotective. He joincd the detective staff at Wellington in 1922 and two years later rejoined the uniform branch at Wairoa. In 1928 he was transferred to Napier for plain elothes duty and remained there until 1935, when he was transferred to Auckland. Sergeant Goddington has taken part in many prominent investigations, inchiing two toiurder cages« He was awarded the record of merit for his work in the case in which Charles Price was convicted of inurder. He nndertook tho task of tracing missing people at Napier after the earthquake. disastor, and among the thousands of telegrams ho received was one from the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales, who had friends in Hawke's Bay.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 182, 19 August 1937, Page 4
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