NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Grey River Argus, 13 November 1948, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

CHILDREN INJURED IN BUS ACCIDENT WANGANUI, Nov. 9. Three Maori school children were slightly injured and were sent to hospital this morning when a passenger bus from Pipiriki to Wanganui left, the river road on a bend 17 miles from Wanganui and plunged over a deep bank 12 feet below the road. The bus was stopped by a massive willow tree and the passengers scrambled back to the road where, with the three exceptions, they were treated for minor lacerations. FAMILY SHARE HOUSE WITH HINDUS WELLINGTON,. Nov. i). “This is positively monstrous, said Mr J. S. Hanna, S.M., commenting on a case in the Magistrate s Court to-dav in which it was revealed that a European woman and her four children, the eldest aged 15, were sharing a nine-roomed rouse with 11 Hindus. The Hindu owner of the house was suing for possession of the portion of his house which was occupied by the European woman and her four children. He was nonsuited on the ground that he had not given a month’s notice to quit the premises. Mr Hanna commented that it was a poor look-out that a woman was wanting to cling to such premises. , Counsel for the defendant replied that if she had anywhere else to go she would do so immediately, and gladly. GAOL FOR P.W.D. FORGERY CHARGES AUCKLAND, Nov. 9. Sentence on three men convicted of robbing the Public Works Department by means of false pay vouchers was passed by Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court to-day. The department’s losses totalled over £lOOO. _ George Malcolm Smith, aged ..<■>, a clerk employed by the Public Works. Department, on 11 counts of forgery, one of attempted theft and 21. of theft, received two years imprisonment with hard labour. Mate Deli ch, aged 58. a contractor, on nine charges of theft, was ordered 12 months’ imprisonment. James Fullerton Brown. aged 43, | a salesman, on three charges ,°f tnei. was released on three years M i tion and ordered to pay faO toWc as | the costs of the prosecution. 1