LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 11

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At a meeting of a local trade union recently a member paid one of the officials rather a lett-handed compliment. He explained that it had been intended to make the said official a presentation at a social function at the close of the business meeting. This arrangement, however, had been upset by a member of the committee giving notice of his intention to introduce a matter of a contentious nature at the meeting, and it was felt that a social function immediately following a long and possibly acrimonious debate would hardly be a success. The speaker explained that tho reason for wishing to hold the social on the night of the meeting was that a separate function held solely for the purpose of making tho presentation might be a fiasco! As a sense of humor is not a noticeable feature of the meetings of the union this naive admission did not produce a ripple on the stolidity of the atmosphere.

In the Police Court, Ashburton, Bernard Lewis Blackwell was fined £2 and costs for using obscene language and £5 for being intoxicated while in charge of a car. His license was suspended till the end of March, and ho was ordered to take out a prohibition order. A charge of stealing two cases of beer, tire property of a man whom he drove in from Chertscy, was dismissed. On two other charges involving breaches of the Licensing Act he was remanded for a fortnight.

In the Magistrate's Court, Christphurch, George Wiliam Phillipson, aged seventeen, was charged with stealing a purse and its contents, valued at 8s Bd. Senior-sergeant Lewis said that the accused mid a younger hoy wanted some money with which to go to Corsair Bay. They devised a scheme for getting raonev. They were'to go up behind a woman in the street, and one was to grab hold of her handbag while the other cut the strings with a pair of scissors. This scheme they put into effect. The accused was ordered To bo detained in the Borstal Institution at Invercargill for a term not exceeding two years. The younger boy appeared in the Children’s Court, and was committed to the care of the child welfare officer.