ACTING CONSTABLE DISAPPEARS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3673, 2 August 1927, Page 3

ACTING CONSTABLE DISAPPEARS.

WITH DOG TAX MONEY.

At the Otamatea County Council meeting last week the clerk reported that Constable Hargreaves Avas the dog tax collator in the Kahvaka Riding, and had sold 158 collars receiving £l4 9s 6d, plus his commission (says the North Auckland Times). He noiv found that the man had left the district suddenly without paying the amount due to the Council. He immediately put the matter in the hands of Constable Boag, Maungaturoto, avlio informed) him that the man had cleared out to Australia. Shop keepers fin the Kaiwaka district Avere also taken down by valueless cheques. The Police’Department, Mr. Aicken said, wanted the Council to pay the expenses of extraditing the man back to NeAV Zealand which Avould cost /about £3O. The absconder Avas only an acting-constable. On the motion of Or. Smith, seconded by Cr. Collins the'clerk was instructed to w rite to the Minister for Justice and ask that the Department bring the Constable back at their own expense. A Star reporter AV,as informed by a Kaiwaka resident that the Constable left a wife and three children behind and that he had got aAvaA' with about £IOO.