Genial Burnett

NZ Truth, Issue 1188, 6 September 1928, Page 6

Genial Burnett

ALMOST it is a dangerous thing to say that a police officer is a popular man, for. when there is a growing belief that this little Dominion is becoming law-ridden simply for reasons of consolidated funds, and another way of tax-collecting, the inference that one of the law's instruments may be a good fellow might be taken up by his superiors to mean that he is not t as ardent as he might be m playing his hand at the little card game (where they are stacked) of Gov-

ernment grab. Risking that, however, and voicing, the opinion of tho easy-going, kindly folk of Coromandel, it cannot be

gainsaid that Sergeant Edward Burnett, who took on the three "dogs' legs" - recently, when he came to grace the streets of the

modest city of Auckland, is a real good fellow. Stern to a degree when necessity demands, he has m his make-up those characteristics which are essential to a good policeman, viz., tolerance, humor,

kindliness, balance and judgment. Should any one of these fall, he has the frame and muscle to carry his commands to their ultimate obedience.

Amid the greater activities of the city, the sergeant may lose some of his more genial country exterior, but Jt is safe to say that at heart ho will remain the same — the man to do his duty to his bath without excoeding it, never doing any man a bad turn if he cannot do him a good one. , .-