LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 19786, 9 February 1928, Page 12

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Press Association telegram from

Palmerston North states that burglars entered the dwelling ot Mr R. D. Gumbrill some time during the past two clays while the family was absent at the croquet tourney. Jewellery and money are missing. The intruder rclocked the drawers and dosed the windows before decamping, with the result that the Gambrills were unaware ul their Joss until yesterday. I'he Governor-General was last night installed as Grand Master ot the Masonic Order in New Zealand. At the time ol the annual Grand Lodge communication when the installation would normally have taken place Sir Charles Fcrgiisson was indisposed, and it was arranged that the ceremony should take place at some convenient time. At the ceremony in Christchurch representatives ul the eral't were present from all parts of the dominion.

Kiie ;it Blenheim totally destroyed a live or six-roomed dwelling occupied by Mr 15. 0. Kidd at Canvaslown. The or.r.ujuiiit.Sj Mr and Mrs Field, a lodger, and four chilren, escaped in their night attire. The building and its contents arc a total loss.

George James Cullen, a laborer,mged twenty-eight, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, to as many as HI teen charges, including thefts and forging and uttering valueless cheques, was committed to the Siijireme Court for sentence. Various statements were road from people in the city .and at Nelson and Blenheim who ensiled cheques for the accused and said they never saw him again. The accused was undefended, amFdid not apply.for bail. ‘ ;

in delivering judgment at WJumgarei in the ease Police v, Hugh Scallv, who was charged with illegally tiescribing himself as a veterinarian, .Mr F. H. Bevicn, S.M., referred to the ease of the College ot Veterinary Surgeons v. Kenuard, in which it was adduced that an unregistered person designated himself by means of a red lamp and brass plate. “ A Kennard, canine surgery.” This case had been dismissed on the ground that no offence wa.s constituted by using words which were merely descriptive and did not in any way refer to a person. One of the learned judges agreed with the judgment given by bis brothers in these words: It apjiears to me that the not result arrived at Irom a consideration ot the case is that it is probably an oficncc to say ‘I am a canine surgeon,' but not an oficncc to say * I have a. canine surgery.’ The information was dismissed.

“As the outcome ol negotiations with the proprietors of the main motor bus fleets operating on the Hutt road, the Railways Department is to have practically a monopoly of the bus service between Wellington and the Hutt if the deal is concluded, and the indications are said to be that it will be. The department will control about thirty-five buses, which previously competed with its suburban railway service. Only one privately-owned service, with six buses ol which do not run a fulltime service, will remain on the road. The acquisition of the additional buses is in accordance with the department’s policy of buying out competitive private enterprise bus services where it is considered certain that these can bo run at a profit by the department. John Alexander Ross, licensee of tiic Grand Hotel, Hastings, was charged at the Magistrate’s Court with opening bis premises for the sale of liquor after hours, and with selling liquor to George oossiler after hours. Arising out of the same . charge Gladys Ross was charged that,.being a person other than the licensee, she sold, liquor to George Rossiter after 1 hours. George Rossiter, Matthew Andrews, and John Thomas were charged with being on the premises of the Grand Hotel after hours. Ross was fined the maximum, £2O, and Miss Ross £lO, Rossiter, who pleaded guilty, was fined £2. and Thomas and Andrews were fined £1 each. The Canterbury A. and R. Association to-day received a deputation from the Royal Agricultural Society, and discussed with it the question of whether the Royal Show should he held in spring or in autumn. The following motion was carried:—“That, subject to a suitable date and satisfactory financial arrangements, the association will support

and help the Royal Society to hold (he show in autumn, charging a nominal lee tor the grounds ot ten guineas per day, provided the association is indemnified against damage.” The Christchurch Association will hold its own show in November as usual.—Press Association.