Last Look Round—

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 847, 16 December 1929, Page 11

Last Look Round —

Motorist’s Offences For driving a motor-car on the footpath at the intersection of Mount Smart Road and Queen Street, Onehunga, and failing to give the “right turn” signal, Noah Jonassen was fined tt 20 on the first charge and 10s on the second and costs in the Onehunga Police Court this morning. Big Ship at Gisborne The Kahika, drawing It feet of water, berthed at the new- wharf at tiisborne yesterday with general cargo. She is the largest vessel to berth inside for six years, and much satisfaction is felt in Gisborne at this evidence of the value of the new port facilities.—P.A. Communists’ Sentence Denounced The Otago - Southland General Labourers’ Union has decided to forward a resolution to the Minister of Justice, denouncing the harsh and cruel sentence imposed upon four members of the working-class community at Wellington for reading and having in their possession literature I which workers in other parts of the world are allowed to read, and calling upon the Minister to have the sentence reviewed with the object of having it removed. —P.A. 4 Geophysical Survey The company that is being formed with the object of securing a geophysical survey of the Maharahara deposits, says a Woodville message, has been underwritten by a Wellington firm of brokers. Preparations are already being made to begin the survey by German scientists. Australian Swimmers Tour Owing to heavy rain on Saturday evening. the first appearance at Gisborne of Ryan and Griffiths, Australian swimmers, in competition with local swimmers, was abandoned. The ! Australians will appear this evening : in the second carnival arranged in con-.nec-tion with their visit. The weather J prospects are good.—P A.