POLICE FORCE
TEMPORARY COMMISSIONER APPOINTED.
WELLINGTON, July 3
Mr R. P, Ward, Under-Secretary for Justice, has been appointed acting Commissioner of Police pending Cabinet’s selection of a successor to Mr W. B. M'llveney.
In making this announcement today, the Hon. J. G. Gobbe (Minister of ■Justice) said that no significance attached to the appointment, which was nurely of a temporary nature and had been made to enable the ordinary routine administration of the Department to be carried on. Mr Cobbe added that Cabinet had not yet considered the selection of a new commissioner.
In Parlinmentnry lobbies speculation is rife as to possible successors; and in some quarters the opinion'i,s held that Mr M’Uveney’s successor will he chosen from outside the ranks of the Police Department. The correspondent of the “Times” is in a position to state that: the present intension of the Government is to confine its choice to eligible officers in the police force.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 July 1930, Page 7
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