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Death of a night watchman

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Death of a night watchman

A policeman guards the site of the murder of F. A. Stade, the night watchman at Wellington Railway Station, in August 1950. Night watchmen were security guards employed to watch over public and private buildings in many New Zealand cities and towns. They were poorly paid.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

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Carl Walrond, Security and personal safety – Property security, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30959/death-of-a-night-watchman (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 4 April 2011, updated 1 August 2017.