Last Look Round—

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 815, 8 November 1929, Page 11

Last Look Round —

Reformative Detention In the Dunedin Supreme Court today Charles Wilfred Burrell, aged 25. on three charges of indecently assaulting young girls, was sentenced to 18 months' reformative detention. —P.A. Farm Labourer Found Dead Herbert Ingamells. a labourer, a single man aged 47, was found dead in his tent with his throat cut on a Makairo farm, near Paliiatua, where he was employed. Deceased in May. 1927. attempted suicide in a similar manner at Alfredton. —P .A. Young Immigrant in Court John James, an immigrant farm labourer, aged 21. pleaded guilty before justices at Hawera today and was committed for sentence on a charge of breaking and entering the Auroa store on the morning of Sunday, October 20, and stealing £3 5s.—P.A. Motor-car Found A motor-car which was removed from outside the Mangere dance hall between 8.45 and 10 o'clock last evening was found by the pc#ice in Princes Street, city, early this morning. The car was the property of Mr. A. K. Guthfield. of Tennessee Avenue, Mangere. Wiring Without Licence For doing certain electrical wiring at Otorohanga without the necessary permit from the electric-supply authority, Bertrand Harding Andrews, manager of the Electric Construction Company. Hamilton, was lined 20s and costs £3 14s in the Hamilton Police Court today. Lawbeath Costs £l5O a Day The agents of the steamer Lawbeath. which is held up by the watersiders at Port Chalmers, say that the owners and charterer arc emphatic that the captain shall not concede in any way to the demands of the crew for New Zealand conditions. They say the ship will be worked. It is estimated that the hold-up is costing the owners £l5O a day. Young Dalmatian Sentenced George Pivac, a young Dalmatian, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for the theft of a hair-clipping machine from his room mate and countryman, in the Hamilton Court today. Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., cc |*- mented that this class of offence was steadily increasing. The Probation Act had not the desired effect on young persons and statistics showed that this class of offence was mostly committed by men under 30 years of age. # # Intoxicated Driver Fined William Wilson, of Riverside, was fined £3O and had his licence cancelled for three years in the Ashburton Police Court today for being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car. Counsel said he had been affected by rum taken for a very bad cold. He did not drive while under the influence of it. The magis* *trate, Mr. Orr Wilson, S.M., took a serious view of the case because of Wilson’s previous convictions. Only his horror of sending a man to gaol prevented a sentence as a warning to others.—P.A. * * • Faulty Crane An accident to a workman who is at present in hospital was referred to by Mr. Ward at the Police Court this morning, prosecuting on a charge of using an electric crane without a certificate, preferred against the Vulcan Steel Construction Company. Mr. Ward said that the company had converted a hand crane, but it had not been examined. The jib had fallen on an employee’s head and cracked his skull. The construction of the crane was faulty and. had it been inspected, the inspector would probably have noticed its defects, and the accident, which occurred in September, would

have been avoided. The company was fined £5.