DOMINION ITEMS.
A/ BISHOP’S SERMON. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, August 7. In a sermon last night, Bishop Williams of' Waiapu, contrasted the amount of money spent on amusements with that given to mission fields. He pointed out that over fifty thousand in cash would be taken in gate money alone for British football matches, and the total spent would probably be a quarter of a million. To that could be added twelve and a half millions expended on racing, tennis, golf, pictures etc. All they could find for missions was eighteen thousand, but if they denied themselves one per cent, of amusement, they would have fifty thousand.
VALUELESS CHEQUE CHARGE.
• CHRISTCHURCH, August 7. Faced with many debts and his wife in ill health, Angus Gordon Foster, aged 36, a salesman took the course °of getting money by issuing valueless cheques. He was arrested on board the Tahiti at Wellington and to-day appeared before Mr Mosley S.M. when lie pleaded guilty to four charges of false pretences. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1930, Page 5
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176DOMINION ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1930, Page 5
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