Last Look Round—

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 839, 6 December 1929, Page 11

Last Look Round —

Hotel Licensee Fined.. P. IT Hayward, licensee of fl « Forester's Arms Hotel. Welling t<»i was fined £5 on a charge of sellinc liquor after hoxirs and £3 for assist ing and abetting in the offence. —P.A. Car’s Midnight Crash Just after 1 o’clock this morning * five-seater sedan motor-car convey some members of the "Simmy's Foi - tune” theatrical combination back t>» WliuiiKarci. after a performance in Dargaville, collided with a telephone polo close to the Awakino Bridge. One of the occupants. Miss Ker\ Murray, of Whangarcl. is in the Mourn Pleasant Private Hospital as a resui: of the accident. Chinese Gardeners Fined In spite of repeated warnings, mark* t gardeners at Takapumi continue t * work on Sunday, according to » »r. stable Woods at the Police Court th:> morning. Bing How, Chung. F J ‘ • Ming Hoo and Wong Hoc were « -at » fined £1 and costs for working at then calling on a Sunday. ••If they .were not working in tho garden all day they would i lobab’ 1 be smoking opium.” commented M F. K. Hunt, S.M. •Still 1 recognise that it has to be stopped ” * * 9 Maori Given Six Months In the Carterton Police Court this morning, before justices of the pen-, a full-blooded Maori. T&ukuriki Kopu. aged 27, commonly known as Krookl. was charged with assaulting a young Maori girl aged 10. with intent to commit a crime. Evidence was given by the girl’s mother, sister and brother. The girl s mother is also a sister of Krooki's. The justices took a very serious view of the case and sentenced him to six months’ imprisonment. with hard labour.—P.A. * * • Motor Company to Pay Mr. Justice Ostler at Napier today delivered a reserved judgment in the case In which John 'William McCoy, • mining engineer, of Auckland, claimed damages from the Aard Motor Services. Limited, for injuries received in a collision between a service car ir which plaintiff was a passenger and a private car at Dannevirke. His Honour held the cause of the accident was the service car driver’s negligence and awarded £1,324 damages against defendants. Safety Hooks for Cargo Trays ‘•The exfSdcnee satisfies me that in the interests of men engaged in working cargo safety hooks should be used, was the rider attached to the verdict given by the coroner. Mr. J. S. Barton at the inquest in Wellington today on a waterside worker, James David Kirkwood, who, while engaged at the steamer Rangitiki on Tuesday evening was struck by an empty tray, which fell from a hook on to him, injuring him so that he died later in hospital The coroner's verdict was that deceased was killed while engaged in loading operations on the overseas liner Rangitiki by being struck on the head by a falling cargo tray, a part of the loading equipment.— P.A.