LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 20137, 30 March 1929, Page 11

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A sentence of twenty-one days’ hard labour was imposed on Eric "Donald Ross, aged thirty, described as a jour-i nalist, in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on a charge of the theft at Auckland of a suit case and four pair, of shoes of a total value of £6 Is 9d, the property of a man named Martin.The term is to bo concurrent with a' sentence of four months that Ross is at present serving.

_ The North Canterbury Farmers* Union passed a resolution that other, farmers’ organisations in the South Island and also the Chambers of Com * merce be invited to co-operato in the direction of countering the propaganda now being circulated in the North Island for the purpose of reducing whoas 1 and flour dutfcs, and that the provincial executives in Canterbury and 1 Otago be asked to take the matter, up.

At Methven, William Thomas Kidson, aged twenty-three, was imed £ll’, in default one month’s imprisonment* for the theft of £TO from a workmate with whom he was living. Ho was also ordered to refund the money.

A company for passenger flying mm formed at Hamilton on Thursday nigh t and will be known as Hamilton Airways, Ltd. ADe Havihmd Moth machine, which has already been pur-* chased, is being Hewn from Christchurch to Auckland, and will be stationed at Auckland until a landing; ground has been provided at Hamilton.; Captain M‘Grogor, D.F.C., has been appointed chief pilot.

Great siirpri.se was caused by the will of Mr Robert MMlwainc, a retired farmer, who dieel in the Taihupo Public Hospital last Thursday Csnys a Press Association telegram). Previously he was a patient in a private hospital m iaihapu. He left estate valued aft £3,000, to ho divided among Toiir; nurses in the private hospital and also a Taihapo bootmaker named J. Greenless, who was a regular visitor to the Public Hospital. One beneficiary,’ Nurse Mrs Masson, now resides in England. MTlwaiuo was a bachelor.

A Press Association telegram from; Auckland states that applications fog the position of city engineer in place of Mr W. E. Bush, who has resigned to go to Brisbane, are to bo called by, the City Council in Great Britain,. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Preference is to be given to applicants possessing a thorough knowledge of town planning. The salary is to bo £1,500 a year, rising to £2,000 by annual increments of £IOO.

Thomas Livingstone, aged thirty-live, a carpenter, who is stated to have been discharged rrom the Hangiho Prison on March 6, pleaded guilty' at Wellington to four charges of obtaining money and goods by false pretences. Ha opened a hank account, thus‘ securing a, cheque book. He withdrew the money’, and proceeded to issue valueless* cheques, the amount involved being C 9 I7s, but he had further cheques ready for £l3B. The magistrate said it was obvious that Livingstone cams to 'Wellington - intending to embark upon a career of dishonesty. Ha opened a hank account in a false name.; Counsel said the accused took Ins mother’s maiden name, because he did not want it to ho remembered that ha had been in prison. The accused wa* sentenced to live months in gaol..