OUR NEW POLICE OFFICER

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2185, 5 October 1920, Page 3

OUR NEW POLICE OFFICER

FARFWHBLFD AT ON (I A ONGA (From the Waipawa Mail.) Constable ami Mrs Owen, who are leaving Onga Onga to lake up their residence in Foxlon, were entertained at afternoon lea in Thomas tea-rooms by the citizens of Onga Onga and district, there being twen-ty-two present, including a number of ladies. The presentation took the form of a handsome canteen set of cutlerv.

After Mr Coles had spoken, Mr H. Macfarlanc spoke briefly on behalf of the farming community, pointing mil how Mr Owen, on his official visits to farmers in connection with different departmental returns, statistics, etc., had shown unfailing tact and courtesy. “1 feel quite sure,’’ said Mi* Macfaiiane, “Unit 1 am only voicing the sentiments of the district when 1 say we are very sorry to lose so worthy an officer and citizen. ) have now much pleasure in presenting Mr and Mrs Owen with a small token of esteem from the residents of the town and district (I may say there arc about forty subscribers), showing the universal esteem in which our guests are held. We Irust. that you both will live long and enjoy good health, and at all limes be able to make good, practical use of the contents of tliis canteen."

Constable Owen, in reply,.heartily thanked the people for their gilt and kindness to him and his family during (heir eight years’ residence, in Onga Onga. He staled that the district of which he had charge was the most law-abiding he knew of in New Zealand, and he regretted, leaving. He was sorry to have to (alee his children away from a school where they were making such good progress, and he thanked the stall' of the school for their kindness and attention to his children. He especiallv thanked Mr W. Coles, the only 3.1’. in the Onga Onga district, for his cheerful and prompt attention to any requests he (Mr Owen) had made to him in his official capacity. He Imped his old friends would call (, n hiiu and Mrs On on tf visiting Foxton.

After the singing of “For They are Jolly Good Fellows.” the gathering dispersed. Constable Owen was presented by the police of the district with a valuable case of pipes as a token of the esteem in which he is held in the force.

The residents of Tikokino, an outlying township in the same district, also made a presentation to Constable Owen of a ease of pipes.