NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1749, 6 November 1917, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

At the Ghristchurch Supreme - Court criminal sittings, Alfred Ernest Craddock, convicted of fraudulent conversion of trust moneys, was further charged with the theft of various sums —'from the trustees of the Trench Estate, £566 10s; W. J. Trench, £7O; Samuel Gallagher, £250; and Edward Adkins £292 — pleaded guilty to the charges concerning the Trench Estate and W. J. Trench. In connection with the other cases, to which he pleaded not guilty, no evidence was offered, and a formal verdict of not guilty was returned. Craddock was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on each charge on winch he was found guilty, the sentences to run concurrently. fC W ell, that’s a wonderful rec.ord. I congratulate you on it,” said Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., when the mother of Peter O’Loughlin, railway employee, appeared before the Second Canterbury Military Service Board (says the ChNstchurch Sun), to ask that the reservist should be exempted. Mi’s O’Loughlin’s husband and three of her sons are serving at the front, and this son w r as the only one left at home to help to support her and five children under 13 years of age. In reply to the Chairman, Mrs O’Loughlin said that her husband was 55 years of age. The astonishment of the board at the fact that a man so far over the military age had been accepted for service w r as increased when, in answer to a question from Major Gresson, Mrs O’Loughlin said that her husband was fighting in the New Zealand Infantry. “You’re entitled to it,” said Mr Bishop, when Mrs O’Loughiin said she desired that this son should be left at home to help her. The appeal w r as adjourned sine die.