Last Look Round-

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 455, 10 September 1928, Page 13

Last Look Round -

Telephone Box Rifled t Last evening a telephone box in j Short land Street, at the old post office. | was rifled by thieves. The coin con* j miner was wrenched off. and the conGaol Term for Vagrant J Tasman William Wilson, uge«l 32. I was sentenced at Blenheim to-day to three months’ imprisonment with hard I labour on a charge of vagrancy. The ’ police stated they had been viewing Garage Destroyed —Fire at Fitr.ro> earlv this morning in a motor garng owned by Mr. W. Haute, a tax: prothe building ard two motor-cars, which were insured for £ >OO and £175 r* sportively- The building which wa<* not insured, was valued at £ 100. —F.A Expensive Resentment i cording to counsel, about New Zeal m 1ors and New Zealand football. \\ alt* r Norris, a young clerk, assaulted John Weir in a Wellington fish shop on Saturday night. He was fined £5. in default a month, half the fine to be paid I to Weir for his medical expenses. Dangerous Driver Fined Arising out of a collision on the i Hamilton-Cambridge road at Hillcrest ; on August 25. Lionel Edward McDonald. who crashed into a two-seater car driven by C. Wilson, was fined L 3 and eosts in the Hamilton Police Court today for dangerous driving. } Charles Henry Taylor, commercial I traveller, was charged with passing .« : ear within 30ft of an intersection, such ! car travelling in tho same direction, j and at a greater speed than six miles an hour. This was the first prosecution in Hamilton under the new regu- ! lations. Tho caso was dismissed as

Mr. W. J. King, for tho defendant, demonstrated the weakness of tho evidence as to when the cars passed, and as to what was the actual point of intersection.