LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Edward Francis Cule Hefford, who had been remanded. on fom- charges of theft from fellow-students at the Dunedin Hospital, the amounts totalling £14, was sentenced on Saturday to a month's imprisonment. — P.A. A srnall car owned by an airman, Mr George Warren, was unlawfully removed from where it had been parked in Grove road on Saturday night, and has not since been located. The vehicle has a white canvas hood, light blue body and black mudguards, and1 its front bumper is missing. A total of 10,000 extra acres of vegetables would be grown this year and 150,000,000 cans of various kinds of primary products would be produce d, said the former Minister for Primary Production, Mr Polson, addressing the Makara-Hutt Valley Farmers' Union recently.

Annette Margaret Jones, aged 3 year and 3 months, the daughter of Frivate and Mrs Stanley Jones, formerly of Hokitika, died in hospital from shock and scalds through falling into a -bath of hot water at the home of her grandparents, Mr and Mrs Patrick Hyland, at Elgin, on Saturday. — P.A. A professional boxing bout of wide interest, particularly to Marlborough, will be staged at Auckland to-night between Clarrie Rayner, of Blenheim, and Clarrie Gordon. This will ■be the fourth oocasion on which the pair have been matched, Gordon having won the first and third fights on points, and Rayner the second. Eayner, who is very fit and confident, has been trained by Mr S. Lewis.

The final Nelson College crosscountry run of the season for the Cocper Cup took place last week. The winner of the cup this year was J. L. C. Chaytor, a son of Mr and Mrs L. C. Chaytor, of Marshlands, Blenheim, who gainea 13 points. T. W. Dodson, with six points, was runnerup, and I. D. McKellar, four points, took third place. The session of Parliament will be resumed in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, following an adjournment since August 20. Interest in the coming session has been stimulated to a certain extent by recent political developments. The political situation is to be discussed at a caucus of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Wednesday morning.

Sentences of 18 months and , one year s gaol, both with hara labour, were among those promulgated at a military camp in the Welnngton clistrict in the cases of soldiers guilty of desertion. One. soldier was away from camp ten months and another 18 months. Another soldier was sentenced to six months' with hard labour and two others eaeh to 90 days' hard labour, all for deserticn Detention for 30 days was imposea in a case of a-bsence without leave. A towed barge containing all the furniture and ]Dersonal effectS of a young marncd couple sank in the Bay of Islands last" week. Immediately a list was noticed the foreman in charge of operations jurnped off the barge and cut it loose. The barge turned on its edge and then capsized. Part of the ten tons of cargo1, including a coat containing money, floated, away Dragging operations are to be carried out in an effort to recover building materials and other irreplaceable goods.

When the need for a greater allocation of petrol to motorists was being advocated at the annual meeting of the Autqmobile Association (Canterbury) , Mv J- S. Hawkes, who is a member of the Christchurch Oil Fuel Committee, said that he was mystified at the number of cars on the road in spite of the restrictions, He did not know how they did it, There were a certain number of faked coupons on the market, he added, and the committee was anxious to know where they came from. When business commenced at the High street Waste Depot it was found that the public had responded so well to the recent appeal that the only possible entrance was by the back door. Paper was actually waistdeep half-way across the packing ro'om. With six bales packed tov/ards the next shipment there's still "corn in Egypt" — but the Mataura mills can take it all and ask for more. There should be a nice little cheque for patriotic funds when the final clean-up is made.

Mr K. L. Usmar, who recently resigned the secretaryship of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic Council to take up a position in Wellington, has written to the mayor of Auckland, Mr Allum, returning the amount of salary represented by three months' leave in recognition of valuable work done by him. "Greatly though I appreciated the gesture by the council, and notwithstanding the intiination I received that members did not intend to perrnit the patriotic fund to f.uilcr. I have decided in the interest of the fund to ask the council to rescind its decision," states Mr Usmar.

A taxi-di'iyer. Herbert G. Smith, received hospital t.reatment at Auckland early on Fnd'ay mofning for a head injury allegedly causcd by a blow on the back of his head from a man whcwn he had driven from Karangahape road to Bowen Avenue. When he was struck, Mr Smith bumped against Ihe car door and fell on the roadway, the car careeving down Bowen avenue and running into a lamo standard. Mr Smith staggered to the footpath and was assisted by a passing airman to a police station. After he had received treatment at, the hospital, he went home. Nothing more has been seen of his assailant.

"In endeavouring to overtake the convoy he appears to have skidded on ihe railway iine which. runs diagonally across the road there, to have come out of the skid and to have been thrown, from his motorcycle under the wheels of the heavy gun-carriage," said the Coroner (Mr W. G. L. Mellish )at an inquest in Wellington upon, Leshe wilkins, a soldier, aged 22, of Milton, Otago, who received fatal head injuries on the afternoon of September 29 when he was thrown from the Armymotorcycle he was ridlng and was run over by a towed gun-carriage travelling about four miles an hour in the sarne direction. The accident occurred in Waterloo Quay and Wilkins was one of a motor-cycle patrol a,t feilding the cofivoy in which the gun-carriage was proceeding. The evidence showed that the driver of the lorry towing the1 gun-carriage did not see Wilkins untii after h ealing a bump which caused him to stop. Wilkins was then lying on, the road. The coroner found that, head injuries Were the cause of death.