NEW COMMISSIONER OF POLICE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2353, 10 November 1921, Page 3

NEW COMMISSIONER OF

POLICE.

Cabinet has decided to offer the position of Commissioner of Police to Mr A. H. Wright, at present Superintendent of Police at Auckland, when Mr J. Donovan retires on superannuation at the end of next month.

Mr Wright, who is sixty years of age, was horn in Gloucester, England, on the Bth April, 18G1, and came to New Zealand when quite a young man. He entered the Police Force on the 2nd August, 1882, as a constable in Invercargill. In November of the following year he was placed on clerical duty in the inspector’s office, Invercargill, and in 1891 he was transferred to the Dunedin station to take up similar duty. He was promoted to the rank of a first-class constable in March, 1893, and appointed district clerk in the inspector’s office in Wellington. On the Ist January, 1898, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant, and in February, 1905, was transferred to the office of tlie Commissioner of Police. In January, 1906, Mr Wright was appointed a sub-inspec-tor, and at the same time given the position of chief clerk of the Department. He remained in the Commissioner’s Office until March, 1911, when he was promoted to the rank of inspector, and placed in charge of the Thames Police district. In February, 1913, he was transferred to Hamilton, which became the District Police Headquarters. Mr Wright remained in charge of the Hamilton district until Ist November, 1915, when he was promoted to the rank of superintendent and placed in charge of the Dunedin district. In September, 1919, he was transferred to the position he at present occupies as superintendent of the Auckland district.

Mr Wright takes up his new duties on the Ist January next.