ELSIE WALKER CASE

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3983, 13 August 1929, Page 4

ELSIE WALKER CASE

POLICE STILL VIGILANT. “I can assure the people of New Zealand that the police fo|rce has not been idle so far as the Elsie Walker ease in concerned,” said the Minister of Justice, (Hon. T. M. Wilford, recently, when liis attention was drawn to a statement to the effect that new evidence now available justified another official inquiry into the case. M)r. Wilford said he could not malke a statement on the ease, apart from saving that the police had never relaxed their effort to solve the mystery of Miss Walker’s death. As Minister of Justice he had evdry confidence tin the police force, particularly as in the past year 92 per cent, of the eases reported to the police had been brought to prosecution. If it was considered that further steps Should be taken in this particular case they would be taken. Further than that he could say nothing.

There was a time when the gamekeeper with his gun was a man to put the fear of more than prison into poachers, but times must be changing if one of the weapons carried Iby thie Egmont National Park Board ranger is any sign, says the Taranalki Daily News. It was stated at a, meeting of the Taranaki Acclimatisation So_eiety that the ranger, while investigating the suspected shooting of pigeons and pheasants, had secured photographs of motor-cars believed to belong to the alleged offenders, and even of three men. The numberplates ion the cars were distinct, but whether the camera will prove as effective, if it is ; not as lethal, a weapon for bringing the culprits to book remains to be seen.