Last Look Round

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 850, 19 December 1929, Page 13

Last Look Round

Fire Destroys Taxi A tire which broke out in Rose Rond, Grey Lynn, at about 1.30 this morning completely destroyed a fivesea ter sedan motor-car owned by White Taxis. The City Fire Brigade was summoned. but little could be done to save the vehicle. The cause is unknown. Body Found in River The body of Mr. Arthur Bentley Sharpe, married, aged 42, the principal of a Wanganui debt-collecting agency, was recovered from the Wanganui River by the police this afternoon. Mr. Sharpe had been missing since Friday. ♦ * * Late Bishop Cleary The following resolution in connection with the death of Bishop Cleary was adopted at a recent meeting of the New Zealand Alliance in Wellington: ‘ That tlio Standing Committee of the New Zealand Alliance deplores the loss to our national life through the death of the Rt. Rev. Biehop Cleary, and records its admiration and gratitude for his great endeavour in the cause of Temperance.’ Speed on the Cinders Further tests of speed on the cinders have been arranged'at Bland ford Park for Saturday night next, when a full programme similar to that presented last evening will be staged. The management has in hand arrangements for special holiday attractions on Boxing Day night and on New Year’s Day night. Meanwhile the speedsters are practising every day on this track, and expect to put up some last times at future meetings. Theft of Cheque “The suggestion is that accused stole P cheque for £t>, and, having altered the 6 to 60. cashed it,” said Chief- ; Detective Hammond. when David Barry was remanded at the Police Court this morning. Barry, alias Berridge, a driver aged 3s, was charged with the theft of a cheque for C 6 from Harry Olsen at East Tam iki on December 7. There wae a second charge of breaking the terms of his probation. On the application of Mr. Sullivan, the case was stood down until after the holidays, a remand being made until January 0.