Tony Matheson, sole-charge constable in Featherston in the mid-1990s, talks to a local. Lone officers are particularly vulnerable in confrontations with criminals, and some rural police have been killed in the line of duty.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
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EP/1994/2926/26
Photograph by Ray Pigney
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