LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2599, 28 June 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Will tlm person who ftV>k a gent’s umbrella .from the train on Monday night, please return to this office.

Weather. —The weather conditions threatening, south-easterly slorin probable, with heavy rain, livers Hooded.

Following on inquiries concerning defalcation in the Hnanees of the Repatriation Department, Harry Patrick Hodgkins, was arrested at Wellington by Detective Nuttall. The accused was brought before the Magistrate’s Court and remanded on a charge of forging an inventory of furniture. At the annual meeting of the Levin Fire Board Air Parker said that as a local member it was his pleasant duty to propose that Mr Cray carry on the duties of chairman for another year. The Board could not have a better chairman and he would ask him to take up the duties again. Mr Rowe and Mr Dempsey, supported this, Ali' Dempsey stating that lie considered it advisable that the chairman should live in Wellington. In proposing Air Cray they were ensuring the business of the Board being left in good hands. Mr Cray in accepting the nom-hintion, said that lie believed this position should be rotary, but since if was the desire of the Board he would he pleased to accept .the position. —Chronicle.