LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 20136, 28 March 1929, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At Hie Magistrate's. Court, Ha-dings, Robert Turner, aged nineteen, pleaded guilty to unlawfully converting a ear valued at C 330 1o liis own use. The accused and another took the car iroin a. private garage, and drove it to Wellington, changing the number plates on °t.hc way They abandoned the uniat Kaiwaira. Ihe accused, who had given himself np, was sentenced to one mantles imprisonment, to he Jollowed by twelve months’ probation, and was ordered to pay the car owner i. 20, the cost of re,pairs.

At the Fltham Police Court, be lore justices of the pence. Prank Maurice Priest was charged that, at Fltham. in January of last year, he unlawfully supplied a certain noxious thing to a woman, knowing that it was intended to be unlawfully used with' intent to procure a miscarriage of the womans daughter. The accused, who entered a plea of not guilty, and reserved Ids defence. was committed lor trial at the next sitting ol the Supreme Court at Acw Plymouth.

John Frederick Hyrnard, aged thirtyone, a .seaman, was at Wellington committed for sentence on charges ol breaking and entering the warehouse of the Woolston Tanneries, Ltd., ami stealing goods valued at £7, and breaking ami entering the premises ol the Petrol, Supplies, Ltd., and stealing an alarm clock valued at 10s; Finger prints on broken window glass were responsible lor the accused's arrest in connection with the hitter crime.

The Government inquiry into Hie cash order system of trading was concluded in Auckland yesterday, and the members of the Commission, the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr J. 0. Cohbe) and the secretary of the department (.Mr J. W. Collins), having heard evidence in the four mam centres, will now prepare a report tor submission to Cabinet. Representatives of the Xational Council of Women said the council ns n body was definitely opposed to the cash order system of trading, which was considered to lie expensive to the borrower, to bo breaking down the integrity of the people, to he opposed to thrill, and to he a factor in increasing the cost ol living. The council felt definitely that the Government should legislate the cash order system out of existence. The social workers of the council wore convinced that the system was most pernicious. Many eases of distress due to the system find come under their notice. An agent spoke strongly 'n favour of the cash order system. Kroin personal observation ami experience gained during visits to thousands ot homes in Auckland he had found the system reported to be one of real service to the housewife. The manager ot a business dealing in pianos expressed the opinion that the cash order system was most beneficial, and had served a useful purpose for the Inlying public. J-le recognised the system as another form of time payment. Kxtra business had been introduced to traders in general. Cash order business line! become a companion to the time payment system, and in ins opinion would take a national place in distribution.