DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1932, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

unemployed teachers

'By Telegraph—Per Press Association ) DUNK BIN, January 20. The Education Department's scheme for rationing work among unemployed i teachers was adopted by the Education I Board, which, however, asked to he allowed to introduce some modifications with the object of doing a little moio for those who would have been probationary assistants next year. CHARGE OF STEALING. CMRISTCHL’RCH. January 20. Frederick Charles Dandy, 29. seaman, pleaded guilty at Lyttelton to-day on charge s of stealing £27 from the Empire Hotel and of attempted fraud by means of a valueless cheque. Tho police said that the accused, while a border, raided the till of the imr and safe. He was .sentenced to nine months' hard labour. UNION SECRETARY GAOLED. VEI.il/TNGTON, January 2D. Elected by fellow workers at the railway construction camp near Gisborne to act as local secretary for the New Zealand Workers’ l niou, and to collect fees, Joseph McGovern, aged 59, disappeared with Cl! ss, the funds in his possession. He was charged here today with failing to account for the money, and also with obtaining £8 fi'biil Joseph Albert Cole by false pretences. Tl was stated McGovern was an old hand and well known to the police. He was sentenced to six months on each charge, concurrent. ESCAPED PRISONER. .'WELLINGTON, January 20. Thomas Joseph Hogg, who escaped from Mount (rawlord prison, was to-day sentenced fu an additional twelve months.