NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 100, 30 April 1930, Page 9

NELSON NEWS

$HE TASMANIA'S FRUIT

RUGBY REFEREES

(From Our Own Correspondent.) ; NELSON, ,29th April. Percy Graves, alias Kiriwi PereneJ alias James Douglas, a Maori, aged 21 was yesterday sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of obtaining £18 at Owen Junction by false .pretences, and to concurrent terms" of three months on other charges of fraudulence and theft. The Key. 'Joseph W. .Kemp, president of the New Zealand Baptist Union, and honorary principal of the New Zealand Biblo Training Institute, arrived toy the Matangithis morning,. and was the speaker at the evangelistic campaign in the Nelson Baptist Church tonight. ".■■:.>' ' The long spell of fine weather appears to have definitely broken in Nelson. Heavy showers fell last night and continued i intermittently throughout the day. For the previous 24 hours up to 9 o'clock this morning the rainfall recorded at the Cawthron meteorological station totalled .97in, faking 3.89 for the month to date and 10.70 in for the year. Owing'to the heavy rain, loading: operations on the ocean liner Tasmania, were, suspended to-day. There are plenty of; casesTof apples" in the shed alongside the ship ready for immediate handling. Yesterday 13,500 cases were put on; board, making 19,500 so far. Mr. Brunt, agent for the Fruitgrowers' Federation, has now been advised that the Tasmania will-go up the canal and land the fruit at Manchester. A "special meeting of the Nelson Rugby Union was held last evening concerning . a notice of motion to discuss the. -,' Referees' Appointment Board. The resolution was the outcome of a deputation' from the Beferees' Association' asking that the board be abolish; cd. Mr. Douglas moved an amendment that the board consist of three active members of the association, the names to be "submitted to the Management Committee. This Vas carried. ' Miv Searle then moved a further amendment:—"That rule 26a, clause 14, fee deleted and that the Appointment Board, consist of three active referees choien by the Kef erees' Association, the names of the Appointment Board to be submitted to the Management Committee of the Rugby Union for approval. Further, that the names of the referees chosen by the Appointment Board for each;match: be submitted to the-Man-agement Committee of the Kugby Union for approval two days before each match." The amendment was carried by alarge majority, and on becoming, the substantive motion, was also carried." ■' ■--:' s