WEST COAST NOTES

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19164, 22 November 1927, Page 17

WEST COAST NOTES

PERSONAL „ fK ur. ««a »—■) nnEYMOUTH, November 21. T 4 C. Bayne, Chief Inspector *.' u visiting the West Coast. M TP Bag gß , I-Pe«tor of Tele- *\ arrived in Greymonth this evenin* r ff McKenzie, secretary to * J ' Post and Telegraph **Tl Stion, who has been o ffit f" Greymouth, left to-day for visiting w, °' Beefton- M Quy and L. G. White ,^Sdf' are visiting the Franz U Mr and Mrs Jas. i and Miss Bigley, left West«DddlCday for Nebon to attend the l ort y f?S J-S. Page, sister of Mrs funeral or Mr Hu( jdleston, whose Simpson ana on o;Q gaturday death (veilingBuilding Activity. , a* of Messrs F. and T. Sothhas been accepted for the »r4B a 1 *f„ brick of a warehouse and « etti<> fa Mackay street for Messrs office' M . ,-i Stormy Weather. „„ weather with heavy showers Stormy »w fIU over the W est ** i**t The unseasonable weather c<Mt «nied by a sharp drop in temconditions being more P ert • '„♦ of mid-winter than early jjoimKßDi jjagirtrate's Court. ~ ff Meldrum presided at to-day's . «t the Greyraouth' Magistrate's SSfthe police being represented by % HaSne, licensee of the Cosniitan Hotel, Dobson, was charged 1 Ing liquor after hotirs on Oc 1 , "d, opening his premises for fU of'liquor, and exposing liquor Sit Defendant was represented ifr H P. Doogan who entered a 1 of guilty to the charge of expos- ? Honor and the other two charges I 1 hdrawn. Sergt. Smyth said it "defendant's third breach of the if-irtiiti twelve months. A convic.JSSt. was inflicted of £lO and ,{ f Hind was fined 10s and costs for fonnd on licensed premises after touel Groom was charged with f ailMo reoort a motoring accident which St MitcheU's on October 23rd. Defendant entered a plea of not guilty. Defendant- was convicted and ordered to pay 10s costs. The nse of set nets for catching whitebait in the Grey district on Oc-

P° b W ™ n V eßUlte o d i ?. chM 8e« against F. W. Blackmail, Sophia Hibbs, A W Rues, and John Ryan. Defendant pleaded guilty. His Worshiped™ w n t C L Wa * 8 1 PUmshable a fine °f not less than £1 or more than £2O. He in S e de?end n a 6 nt° f £1 "' «*« « Not guilty was the P l ea entered bv a young man, Archibald Chester, to "a charge that at Wallsend on November 11th he assaulted Elizabeth Shearer, aged ,13 years. His Worship said that the offence was serious and accused was liable to imprisonment not exceeding six months. The case could not be met with a fine and accused would be sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour. For being on the premises of the Union Hotel, Wallsend, after hours on November 11th, and the ® UC^ He ? d H ° te1 ' Brun ner, on October 22nd, Chester was fined £1 with 10 s costs on each charge.