Clean layout, excellent writing

Editor

Just a quick note on the latest issue of the Police Journal (February 2005). I admit to being a bit ticked when I found out about the decision to publish the journal on a bi-monthly rather than a monthly basis.

As a former editor of the magazine, I am still a bit protective of it and the progress it has made over the years, and I imagined that changing the publication so that it came out every two months would be deleterious.

I’m happy to admit I was wrong. The layout is clean and easy to read (which is important with a readership that extends from people in their teens to those in their nineties), and the use of colour photographs (as opposed to advertising) in the editorial pages is excellent. On top of that, the quality of the writing is excellent.

Well done to everyone involved, and thank you for providing such a readable publication.
Yours sincerely
Peter Parfitt

Ancestor a police officer?

The editor

Having just read an article about Senator Ross Lightfoot and Police Mare Queale, I wondered whether there is any connection with Hugh Gray Queale, an ancestor of mine who migrated from County Leitrim in Ireland in 1876. I believe he joined the SA Police as a trooper.

I have records that show he died on August 22, 1908, and was buried at Kapunda SA.

I have tried to search the old SAPOL records with no luck. Any help you can give me to verify his existence, and that he did in fact join the police, would be much appreciated.
Kind regards
Bryan Evans
E-mail: ims@hunterlink.net.au

Information, please

Dear Andy

My father Brian “Rick” Harvey died as a result of an accident that happened while he was on duty in July 1956. I was only five at the time and, since then, my brother, Kent, Rick’s son, died in 1966 aged 12.

As I moved away from Adelaide with my mother and her new husband in the late 1950s, I would really appreciate any information that you could give me about my father.

He raced at Rowley Park in the 1950s and, as both my grandparents and aunt have died, I have really not had contact with anyone who knew him (I guess a lot of his colleagues have moved on since then). So any contact would be most appreciated.

I do remember that Father Christmas and lots of policemen came around at Christmas the year my father died, and I have vague recollections of him on his bike. I currently live at the southern end of the Gold Coast.
Karen Secombe (née Harvey)
lululean@optusnet.com.au

Excellent article

Dear Editor

I just came across the article Responsible for the horror? (Police Journal, October 2004). This was about William Munday and concerned a multiple murder in Binalong in1868.

Could you please tell me where you got your source material from? I am interested, as the policeman known as Constable Hall was my ancestor and I would like to follow up on it.

I have access to the Police Gazettes at the NSW State records if they are in there.

Excellent article by the way.
Garry Ragen

A respectful farewell

Dear Andy

I would like to thank Police Association president, Peter Alexander, and everyone who attended my late husband Rick’s funeral.

The friendship, sympathy and consideration shown to me during my recent bereavement will not be forgotten.

Rick would have been so pleased to know that you were all there. That, combined with the “guard of honour”, would have made him so proud. It was such a respectful way to mark his passing.

Again, thank you for the support and empathy shown to me and my family.
Kindest Regards
Joyce Rudzinski

One of a kind

Dear Andy

I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who attended dad’s funeral, sent cards and condolences, or just took the time to exchange waries when they heard that dad had died.

He was one of a kind, a hard act to follow, and will be missed.

Thank you to all for regarding dad with such honour, respect and dignity. He would have been proud beyond words.

I will always think of dad as having been transferred.
Min Hughson (née Rudzinski)
Former WPC