Last Look Round—

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 663, 15 May 1929, Page 11

Last Look Round —

Reception to Councillors This afternoon the Mayoress. Mrs. A. I>. Campbell, is giving: a reception in ths council chamber at the Town .Hal: to members of the City Council and their wives. The chamber has been tastefully decorated with palms, and has been arranged in the form of a drawing room. Grants by Savings Bank Subject to the approval of the Government. the trustees of the Dunedin Savings Bank have made the following grants out of profits; Otago University. for the medical school. .41500. For W.E.A.. £2OO. St. John Ambulance. £2OO. James Dowell Rest Home. £2eo. R.S.A.. £125. Gaol for Car Thief Sentences totalling 12 months’ im prisonment with hard labour le imposed by Mr. K. Page. S M.. «>n Sidney Joyce Hall, alias Ainsworth, aged 27.” a salesman, for the theft of £ll 10s from a fellow lodger, and for ih«» conversion of a car and the theft of a rug. a cushion and a bathing suit front this car when he abandoned it near Master ton. Hall has a record sine* 1921, and was out on a probationary licence.—P.A. Bonus on Pork Exports The Hon. G. W. Forbes. Minister of Agriculture, has informed the New Zealand’s Farmers' Union that it is regretted that no alterations can non be made in the method of the payment of bonus for the current season in connection with the export of pork.— l*. A. Burglars at Palmerston North Burglars last evening raided two shops at Terrace End. From D. Clinton, hairdresser, a sura of £2O n*s taken, also a quantity of cigarettes. From Mrs. Godwin’s confectionery shop stock, too, was taken, but there was no money left in the till. Entrance was effected by smashing a window above one door of Mr. Clinton's pre-» mises, and a side window of the confectioners sriop.—P.A. Thief Goes to Gaol A sentence of three months’ imprisonment was imposed by Air. P. H. Harper. S.M., on William Jarvie for the theft of an eiderdown quilt valued at £2. On a charge of forging a cheque at Gisborne he was committed for sentence, and on a charge of forging and uttering a cheque for £lO 10s 6d at Napier he was remanded to appear at Napier on May 23.—P.A. Hastings House Burned A four-roomed house at Hastings, occupied by Stephen Ryan and owned by the Public Trustee, situated just outside Hastings Borough was completely destroyed by fire last night. The occupier is a heavy loser. Insurance on the house is £350 in the Guardian office, and on the furniture, £IOO, held with the South British Company. Doctor Not Responsible The magistrate, Air. H. A. Young, today gave his reserved judgment in the case against Dr. C. H. Upham, frojn whom the Wellington Hospital Board claimed £3B as fees charged by the board for the examination of swabs taken from one of defendant's patients. The verdict was for defendant, who, the magistrate said, had repeatedly, since 1919. disclaimed any personal responsibility on the ground that he was merely acting as an agent for the patient.—P.A. Thefts from Farmers William Leslie Veale, 18, was sentenced to two years in a Borstal institution by Air. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today for a series of thefts from farmers for whom he had worked at Alatamata and Walton. The evidence showed that accused was separated from his parents when 12 years of age and was four years at the Salvation Army Home, Putaruru. The magistrate said the youth wanted discipline, and he could not admit him to probation. Obviously he was the victim of lax unbringing. Man Killed by Car Circumstances surrounding the death of Patrick AlcGlone, who was found lying in a semi-conscious condition on the Foxton line on the evening of May 4, and died in hospital later, were investigated by the coroner today. His verdict was that deceased died from haemorrhage and laceration of the brain following a fractured skull caused by being knocked down by a car. “It seems extraordinary that the person responsible for the accident should not make it known,” said the coroner. “I hope every effort will be made to trace him.”—P.A.