LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 9 December 1930, Page 18

LYTTELTON NEWS.

PERSONAL. Mr E. E. Sutherland, formerly chief officer in the Union Company's service, has been appointed to the signal staff at Adderley Head and takes up his duties to-day. Work for Unemployed. With the assistance of a grant of £<loo from the Unemployment Board the Lyttelton Borough Council, in conjunction with the Heathcote County Council, will start betweeu 20 and 30 unemployed men on relief work at Heathcote, constructing a stop-bank to prevent flooding of the Lyttelton Council's waterworks land. Men desiring work are asked to nttend at the Council Chamber at ten o'clock this morning. Magistrate's Court. Messrs W. C. Cleary and W. T. Lester, J.P.'a, presided at tho Magistrate's Court yesterday. Harry Thomas Betts was charged with stealing, at the Sailors' Home on December 7th the sum of £B, the property of Victor Woolf. He pleaded not guilty. Victor Woolf, a seaman, said he had been paid off tho motor-ship Maui Pomare on Saturday. After paying some accounts he had £8 left, and put the money in his hip pocket. About six o'clock on Sunday he saw Bctta in his (witness's) bedroom at the Sailors' Home. On returning from the bathroom witness discovered that tho money was gone. Ho asked Betts where tho money was, and Betts denied having been in the room. Later witness saw accused giv two men fivo shillings each outside the Home. Ernest Robert Hopwood, superintendent of the Sailors' Homo, said that j when asked to pay for a week's board on Saturday, Betts had told witness that ! he had no money. i Michael Moran said accused had repaid him ss, which he owed him. | Betts stated that a fireman, whoso i name he refused to divulge, had paid I him £3. | Accused was convicted and sentenced j to two months' imprisonment. Michael Moran, a second offender for drunkenness, was convicted and fined