DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1932, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

ALLEGED HOOKMAKING. (Per Press Association — Copyright.) Wellington, September 29. . tA relief worker, Lawrence Chapman, on a charge of carrying on business as a bookmaker, was committed to the Supreme Court- for trial. The alleged offence wag at a whippet race meeting at Tawa Flat on September 4th. COUNTERFEIT COINS. WELLINGTON, September 29. Albert Henry O’Malley, aged 57, a labourer was committed for trial on a charge of uttering a counterfeit coin knowing it to be counterfeit, and of having another in his possession. Both co’ins were half-crowns. BETTING FINE. WELLINGTON, September 29. In his reserved judgment, Mr Page, ■S.jM., convicted George Harold Bennett, aged 40, a barman, of using a private bar of the Alhambra -Hotel for the purposes of .bejtting, and fined him £ls. The fine may be paid at the rat 6 of '£l per week;'" theft charges. ROTORUA, September 29. Described by t'he police as a nuisance around camps, Albert Thomas Sims Evans, 22, employed by the State Forest Service,' Kaiiigaroa Plains, pleaded guilty to half a dozen charges of theft from his mates in the camp, including two (robberies from postal packets. For 'the last two h e was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. On others he was ordered three months’ hard labour. Evans, has .a long list of previous convictions since early boyhood. AN APPOINTMENT. WELLINGTON, Sept, SO. Mr E. E. J. Dowland, Deputy Omini issi oner of Taxes has been appointed Commissioner in succession to Mr E. ,T. R. Cummings, who recently retired. !*