MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 174, 17 April 1919, Page 10

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

' Mr 1 ? . V. Frazer, S.M., presided over yesterday's Bitting of . tlia Magistrates \Tncob Easmussen was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of being absent without loavo from his ship, the I earless, lie was also ordered to forfeit two days pay and to be placed aboard tho vessel should she be ready to sail before the expiry of the sentence. . - A fine of £& and costs was imposed on William Noble, solicitor, for failing to have Ms trust account audited iie required by Act of Parliament. A sentence of seven djiys imprisonment was imposed on Felix Grant on a ohar"B of drunkenness. H« was convicted arid discharged for a breach of his prohibition order. Two. first oflenders for insobriety were, fined as. and. 10s. each.

The appointment is announced of Mr. D J Shea to the position of secretary of the Canterbury Frozen Heat_ Company., Ltd. Mr/ Shea gained his initial, experience in the stock department of the Canterbury Farmers' Co-op. Association in South Canterbury, under Messrs. JohnMundell =nnd G. R. M. Jones. After be W ten years in the employ of the association, he joined the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company in 1906, filling a position at the Tiinn.ru branch for a year. Hβ then transferred to the head office, and in 1909 was appointed accountant, carry, in- on these duties up to the tune of i-is present appointment. — Cliristclmroli It is proposed to closo what is believed to be the smallest school in England, that at Elmley, a detached part of the Me of Sheppey. There are only fave pupils on the books, and three of these are children of the head teacher Since the outbreak of wir lifeboats of tho Royal National Lifeboat institution have been launched oil over I'M occasions and saved over r>ooo lives, .M ot these launches having been to casualties directly due to tlio war and resulting in IG3B lives being saved.