LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

\\ ‘ ' ' - stuff of the Hokitika. District Higlv’ School met, on the invitation ot Mr and Mrs Irvine, at the Rector’s house last Thursday evening for the purpose of saying good-bye to Miss Laycock who for the ’past three years has been Second Assistant in the Secondary Department. A very enjoyable evening was spent in games, competitions, and music. After supper bad been dispensed by the hostess, the Lector, in a speech, eulogistic of Miss Laycock’s services as a teacher, and of the pleasant relations that have always existed between her and the rest of tb staff, presented her on their behalf with a set of stainless cutlery as a small indication of the esteem which his fellow teachers have always felt for; her. Mi Perry, on behalf of Miss Laveock, having suitably responded, the gathering broke up after singing “Auld Lang Svne” and the National Anthem.

Extraordinary features presented themselves in a ease heard before Mr 11. _\Y. Bundle, S.M.. at the Magistrate’s Court Greymouth on Friday, when Win. Frank Hughes answered charges of false pretences and forgery. The evidence showed that on Saturday *Flughcs (who had been released from Greymouth gaol that morning I after serving a sentence) although a I complete stranger, was given two blank ! cheques by a. shop-keeper. Hughes filled in the cheques—one for £8 10s and the other for £lfi— and tried to cash thorn. The first* was refused by H ■ person win. bad given flq. blank cheques, nut afterwards the second cheque for CHi. although it was not dated, was cashed by another shopkeeper, and 1 amongst the change the shopkeeper included bis own cheque for £l2, which 1 was cashed within a few minutes by a tailor. The magistrate spoke severely to the shop-keeper who gave the blank cheques and said that he was morally responsible for the loss of the money. Hughes pleaded guilty to both charm's and was committed for sentence at lie' next sitting of the Supreme Court at Christchurch.