HERE AND THERE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 620, 23 March 1929, Page 13

HERE AND THERE

Cruelty to Horses Working two horses with sore shoulders cost James Reddy £5 at the Police Court yesterday. Reddy was engaged on grading work at Coromandel. * * * Pay for Relief Work At the Farmers’ Union Conference at Hamilton yesterday a resolution was passed against the payment of standard wages on relief work as liable to attract capital and labour from the primary industries. * * * Burned to Death John Riley, a farmer, aged 70, living at Haldane, Southland, was burnt 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. He was seen pulling a 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 yesterday for operating an unlicensed radio set. His excuse was that he had no money to take out a licence. “If you have no money for the licence you have 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 yesterday to three months’ imprisonment on charges of defrauding a firm of solicitors. Pie 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 hand. —P.A.

Assaulted Fellow-Ganger Henry Wilson, a foreman ganger employed by the Railway Department near Horotiu, was charged yesterday in the Hamilton Police Court with assaulting a ganger, James Herbert Snooks. Wilson accused Snooks of being an agitator, and, catching him roughly oy the neck, shook him" like a rat.” Huntly will be There Iluntly will be represented at the Australasian draughts championship tournament, which starts at Brisbane on March 30, i>y Air. William Penman, a noted South Auckland player, who left by the Ulimaroa yesterday. Ho 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 a.m. yesterday, on their annual excursion. Their rendezvous was the Auckland Zoo. Special trams conveyed the children to their destination. Today 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 leave 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 em- I ployer. Stolen Groceries Robert James Hepburn, aged 42. a horse ! driver, was fined £lO at the Welling- 1 ton Police Court yesterday for the theft of salmon and shrimp paste, and sugar 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 Gett, aged 62, a Chinese storekeeper, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. —P.A. • • * Watery Butter Putting the blame for the excess percentage of water in butter he was 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 Police Court yesterday. 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, *~nd 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 mada on! five pounds of the butter altogethe