HERE AND THERE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 126, 18 August 1927, Page 15

HERE AND THERE

Burglary and Mischief.— John Clarence Hal lam and Winstone Joseph Reilly were found guilty in the Supreme Court at Napier yesterday of causing mischief during a burglary, which resulted in an office catching fire. They were remanded for sentence.

New Thames Bridge.—Work began Tuesday on a new bridge across the Thames, which will replace the Lambeth foot-bridge, so well-known to Londoners. It will take four years to complete, and will cost about £1,000,000. —British Official Wireless.

Remanded For Sentence.—Pleading guilty in the Police Court yesterday to a charge of obtaining two boxes of butter by fraudulent representation. Harold Raymond Kerr was remanded until August 24 for sentence.

Wandering Cows.—Logan Pye, it was said in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, has persistently offended in allowing cows to wander at large at Takapuna. On each of two charges he was fined £ 2 and costs, with solicitor’s fee £ 1 Is.

Ferry Passenger Injured.—While alighting from the 5.15 p.m. ferry from Auckland to Stanley Bay, Mr. W. J. Spring, solicitor, fell heavily on the wharf and injured his left leg. He was attended to at his home at 18 Russell Street, Devonport, yesterday.

British Unemployed.—The Minister of Labour announces that the number of unemployed last week in Great Britain was 1,024,000, this being 95,000 less than the previous week, when the total of unemployed was increased by a public holiday.—British Official Wire-

Big Wellington Loan.—The Welling.- ; ton City Council’s proposal to raise j £290,800 by way of loan for streets j improvement has been approved by the i Local Government Loans Board. The proposals wrill be submitted to the ; ratepayers on September 15. The proposals include £IBI,OOO for the permanent paving of streets, £53,000 for i the surface-sealing of secondary streets, 'and £30,000 for the formation and paving of footpaths in all parts of the city.

Railway Clerk’s Appeal.—An appeal to Parliament against the action of the Alinister of Railways in not giving his approval to a decision of the Railr way Appeal Board, which upheld the appeal of Charles Lewis Blackburn, a clerk in the head office of the department, was made yesterday in a petition presented on Blackburn’s behalf by the i Railway Officers’ Institute. The petiI tion, says Blackburn, was superseded !on the classification list. The petii tion asks that his name be placed in its rightful place on the list, and that he be paid the difference in salary for j the intervening period.