Last Look Round—

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 447, 31 August 1928, Page 13

Last Look Round —

Greengrocers Fined Two Chinese at Wellington to-.iay were each fined £5 for a breach of th' regulations in regard to the packing • vegetables for market. In this ea? they “topped off” sacks of embbages. Both Legs Broken A boy of 12. Walter Dry don. - admitted to the Wellington 1 yesterday with both his legs broke. Tho lad was sliding down a hill at Miramar on a sledge when the slodu.c fell over on him. Eye Injured by Arrow An arrow, pointed with an inch n;»» which was shot by a playmate. stru« k one eye of John Glasson, aged IS year, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Noel # Hasso:i. of South Brighton. The eye had to b removed at the Christchurch Hcspit; A Costly Argument Charles Pearce, who became involv d in an argument in Kansha we Str«*« : and allowed his eloquence to develop into obscenity, was fined Cl and at the Police Court this morning. No Income Tax Returns a fin o: £25 was impoinrwl w I failure to furnish returns of inconi for the year ended March 31. Insufficient Evidence Jack Young Thompson, charged at tho Supreme Court session at Hamilton to-day with breaking and entering at Otorohanga. was acquitted on th»Judge ruling that proof was not sufficiently strong to convict. Boy Cyclist Injured A Boy Scout. Max Stembridg *. >«••• of Mr. and Mrs. F. Stembridge. of Pukekohe, broke his arm yesterday morning. Ho was cycling down the main street when he was thrown tithe ground. He was attended by Di. Begg and takesn to his home. Stole From Mails “The safety of mails in post ollict-s is of great public importance and th--Courts never look lightly on offences by office lads in past offices concerning the tampering witSi mails,” said Mr. E. Page. S.M., at Wellington to-day, when sentencing a young postman. Henry Edward Roberts, to be detained in a. Borstal Institute 12 months on five charges of stealing letters containing money, postal notes and stamps, to a total value of £5 8s 6<l. • • • Snow at Ashburton Snow fell as near the coast as Longbeach. Both telephone and electricpower wires are down in various parts of the county owing to falling branches. After a period of mild north-westers, the weather conditions changed suddenly last night, a south-wester bringing a steady fall of snow. Snow is lying an inch and a-lia!f on the ground this morning. The weather is now glorious. Minister's Tour The Minister of Lands, the Hon. A. D. McLeod, will leave Wellington on Sunday evening for To Aroha, where he will deal with a number of local drainage questions. On Monday evening the Minister •will deliver a political address at Waitoa. On Tuesday, in company with Mr. A. M. Samuel, M.P.. Mr McLeod will inspect the drainage works in the vicinity of the Piako River, and he will leave for Wellington in the evening. * » • Soldiers’ Benefactor "Scores of officers of the New Zealand Expeditionary’ Force will learn with deep regret of the death in London on June 6 of Mr. C. A. Knight.” said the Prime Minister at Wellington last evening. “Mr. Knight gave up his magnificent home in Lewis Crescent, Brighton, and ran it at his own expense for several years as a convalescent homo for officers of the Expeditionary Force. He afterwards bought another house in Lewis Crescent and put it to the same purpose.”