DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 14 September 1937, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS

AWATEA’S ROUGH TRIP. _ fPer Press Association], WELLINGTON, September 13. “We are throwing no bouquets to the Tasman Sea after this trip,” said Captain Davey, of the Awatea, when the vessel arrived from Sydney today, four hours late. The Awatea struck heavy weather almost after leaving Sydney, and it continued until this morning without abating, the crossing being one of the stormiest the vessel has ever experienced. Furniture in the men’s smoking room was damaged. Captain Davey estimated that on the average the waves were about 35 feet from the crest to the base. The trip, he said, was worse than the recent one to Auckland when steel stanchions were twisted. Damage in the smoking room was mostly due to a heavy settee breaking loose during the specially heavy seas on Friday night. AUCKLAND, September 11. It is announced that the closing date for the receipt of applications for tenancies of the 212 State houses being built at Orakei, has been extended until further notice. Applications closed last month, and it is explained that the reason for the extension is the delay caused by the weather, and the recent carpenters’ strike, and the Parliamentary Undersecretary in charge of Housing (Mr J. A. Lee) wishes to give everyone the fullest opportunity of applying. Mr G. S. Ellis, branch manager of the State Advances Corporation, said to-day that more than 1,500 persons were seeking houses either at Orakei or on the Cadman and Casey estates. WELLINGTON, September 12.

Thieves gained entry to the premises of A. S. Paterson and Company, Ltd., Hutcheson, Wilson and Company, Ltd., and other occupants ci their buildings in Lower Cuba Street some time before 7.30 to-night, and left numerous signs of their activities in forced doors and disordered rooms. Investigations by the police and members of the firms concerned revealed that the thieves had had little profit for their trouble, however. Other offices visited were those of Hott, Ltd., in Hutcheson, Wilson and Company’s building, and in the other building, Wiggins, Tespo, and Alex. Pirie (Export), Ltd., and W. D. and H. O. Wills (N.Z.) Ltd., Sales Branch. AUCKLAND, September 13. With 250 happy tourists, the “Maunganui” returned this morning to Auckland from a nineteen days’ Pacific Islands cruise. Except for the first dav out from Auckland, sunny days and pleasant evenings were the order. Outstanding memories are the visits to the blowholes and the home of the at Nukualofa, surf-bath-ing at Vavati, a full round of entertainment at Apia, transfer of the tincan mail at Niufoou, also Fijian dances and firewalking at Levuka and Suva. AUCKLAND, September 10. Prosecuted under the Justices of the Peace Act, Fred Simpson admitted seven charges of false pretences, obtaining sustenance totalling £ll 14s 4d by stating that his wife had no assets when she had £560 to her credit in a savings bank. Defending counsel said that after hearing the warning by the Acting-Minister for Labour (Hon. P. C. Webb) against sustenance frauds at the Town Hall recently, Simpson called at the Labour Department’s office, confessed to misrepresentation, and offered to repay the money. The Magistrate said the case was different from ordinary ones. Simpson was fined £lO on one charge and convicted on the other. AUCKLAND, September 10. The occupier of the heavily-barri-caded building which was raided by detectives on Wednesday night, Stanley Chin Horne, aged 47, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court today to permitting premises in Grey's Avenue to be used for the smoking of opium. He also pleaded guilty to a charge of being found in possession of prepared opium. He was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment on the first charge and was lined £25 on the other.

FREE LOT SHOWERS. AUCKLAND, September 13. Responding to a plea of the Dock Street Mission, the Auckland City Council has constructed four compartments with concrete floors, to provide free hot showers, with water heated by the furnaces, at the city destructor at Freeman’s Bay. In the first four hours. 77 persons from the crowded tenements made use of the facilities, a long queue of men and boys forming. Separate hours are provided for women and girls. MAN MISSING. OAMARU, September 13. Walter Goldie Dutton, billiard saloon proprietor, of Maheno, near Oamaru, has been missing since September 1. On that date he left the residence of his brother, Mr J. A. Dutton, to go to his saloon. He has not been seen since.