Last Look Round

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 619, 22 March 1929, Page 11

Last Look Round

Cruelty to Horses Working two hor>i - .-sure, shoulders cost James Reddy £5 at ram Police Court this morning. was engaged on grading work at Cofcomandel. Pay for Relief Work At the Farmers’ L*nion Coolers •» at Hamilton to-day a resolution wrfs passed against the payment of standard wages on relief work a_s liable to attract capital and labour from the primary industries. Burned to Death John Riley, a farmer, aged 70. liv - ing at Haldane. Southland, was bunu to death when his four-roomed dwelling was destroyed by fire. Deceased lived alone.—P.A. Schoolboy Thought Drowned Robert Duff, aged 11, is believed to have been drowned at Makarewa. Southland. lie was seen pulling •< rope of the cable chair used in crossing the river and later his schoolbag was found on the bank. Dragging operations have been unsuccessful.—P A. Unlicensed Radio S. S. Nicholl was fined £3 and costs at the Police Court this morning for operating an unlicensed radio set. His excuse was that he had no money to take out a licence. *'lf you have no money for the licence you ha i no right to have a set,” commented Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. * * * Shrewd Supplicant Victor Edward Ellis, a labourer, aged 42, was sentenced at Christchurch to-day to three months’ imprisonment on charges of defrauding a firm of solicitors. He had obtained 30s by representing that he had lost two fingers in an accident. The police said the “lost” fingers were bandaged up in the palm of the accused's ha’nd. —P.A.

Found Dead in Street At an inquest this morning before the coroner, Mr. W. R. McKean, a ver* diet that* the death of John Frederick Softie, who was found lying at the corner of Wexford Street and Greet North Road on the evening of March 3, was due to heart failure was recorded.

Assaulted Fellow-Ganger Henry Wilson, a foreman ganger employed by the Railway Department near Horotiu, was charged to-day in the Hamilton Police Court with assaulting a ganger, James HerberL Snooks. Wilson accused Snooks ett being an agitator, and, catching him roughly by the neck, shook him” like a rat.”

Huntly will be There Huntly will bo represented at the Australasian draughts championship tournament, which starts at Brisbane on March 30, by Mr. William Penman, a noted South Auckland player, who is leaving by the Ulimaroa to-day. He will probably be New Zealand’s only representative, writes The Sun’s Huntly correspondent.

School Excursions Five hundred happy children from, the Frankton Junction School reached Auckland soon after 10 o’clock this morning on their annual excursion. Their rendezvous was the Auckland Zoo. Special trams conveyed the children to their destination. To-mor-row another .1,000 children from the Hamilton East School will visit the city and zoo.

Apprentices and Drill The conference of the New Zealand Printing Trades Association, meeting at Christchurch, passed a resolution that total exemption from drill be granted all apprentices who attend technical college classes; that leaves obtained for attending military camp shall not be regarded as annual holiday; that all apprentices shall attend technical college classes where available, and that fees be paid by employer.

Stolen Groceries Robert James Hepburn, aged 42. a horse driver, was fined £lO at the Wellington Police Court to-day for the theft of salmon and shrimp paste, and sug;u* to a total value of £4 17s from the warehouse of Burch and Co. He was ordered to make good the value of the unrecovered goods, £1 Bs. Arising out of these charges, William Joseph Geft, aged 62, a Chinese storekeeper, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. —P.A.

Sweets for Children The wisdom of giving sweets in children was discussed by the Canterbury Education Board to-day when I ho Director of the Division of Dental Hygiene wrote asking that the attention of school committees be r'rawn to the prejudicial effect of sweets given to children at school picnics and on other occasions. “I would sooner let my children have sweets even if it took a day off their lives,’* Mr. W. H. Winsor said. Mr. C. S. Thompson said that if a packet of ordinary boiled sweets did any harm to people it was time thergot off the earth. Watery Butter Putting the blame for the excess* percentage of water in butter he w;m offering for sale on the fact that it was made by his wife, and that it was her first effort, Reginald Boddie was ordered to pay costs at the Poli'-e Court this morning. The inspector said that he had noticed in a shop window some butter offering at from 2d to 3d a pound cheaper than other brands. He had bought some and explained who he was when Boddie had come into the shop, and said that he was responsible for the butter. He was a milk vendor, and the butter was made from the cream he had left over after supplying his customers. “Mr. Boddie makes very little of the butter,” continued witness, “and the case is not so serious as if a big factory were turning out hundreds of tons.” Boddie said that he had made only five pounds of the butter altogether.