LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1939, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Child Drowned. A child aged 21 years was drowned in Takapau, Hawkes’ Bay. yesterday, when it fell down a well while playing in the backyard at the home of its parents. Mr and Mrs Dawspn Heperi. A doctor was summoned, but resuscitation attempts failed. Two Mr Doyles. Two Mr Doyles met in Invercargill yesterday afternoon. They had not previously seen each other and they were not related, but each is the Hon Thomas Francis Doyle, M.L.C. One comes from Bluff. The other comes from Mauritius, Indian Ocean. The latter, who is a complete stranger to New Zealand, now has a firm friend in Bluff. Maori Found Guilty. A verdict.that Joe Douglas, aged 31, a Maori, of Wairoa, was guilty on two charges of rape and indecent assault was returned yesterday by. a Maori jury at a trial before Mr Justice Northcroft in the Supremo Court at Gisborne. The jury retired at 12.39 p.m., returning with its verdict at 2.45 p.m. Prisoner was remanded for sentence. Athletic Cup. The Butement Cup, which was won by Mr G. W. Sellar in 1903 for a 100 yds event, has been handed back to he Masterton Amateur Athletic Club by Mr Sellar for further competition. The cup will be awarded to the winner of a club 100yds race, to be competed for on Wednesday week at the Park Oval. Long Trip by Jury. To visit the scene of a fatal accident from which a claim for £4014 damages had arisen, a jury travelled morcthat 100 miles to Waiotira, North Auckland, yesterday afternoon. The journey was made at the jury’s request and the members set off shortly after midday in a large service car.'They were accompanied by the deputy-registrar of the Auckland Supreme Court, a surveyor and two constables. Top-Dressing Programme. The Masterton Borough employees are continuing their programme of street top dressing with the new preparation. Today a length at the northern end of Queen Street is being treated. When work was being done in Perry Street yesterday morning a newspaper boy. ignoring the warnings of the workmen, essayed an unsuccessful crossing of the fresh tar on a bicycle and get well covered for his pains when his cycle skidded and sent him flying on to the road. Kingseat Mental- Hospital. The tender of the Fletcher Construction Company, Ltd, to construct a twostory nurses’ home at the Kingseat Mental Hospital has been accepted by the Public Works Department. The Government is to provide the steel for the building and, including this material, it is considered that the total cost will be approximately £66,000. The company is also constructing two villas, each to accommodate 50 male patients, garages, workshops and timber racks, the contract prices for these involving nearly £36,000. There is thus work proceeding or authorised at Kingseat involving an expenditure of close on £102,000. Manufacture of Glass.

A further step in the reorganisation of the former Australian Glass Manufacturers Company Ltd, of Melbourne, is the registration in Auckland of the New Zealand Glass Manufacturers Company'.Proprietary, Ltd, a public company with a capital of £250,000 in £1 shares. The principal object of thenew concern is to acquire and take over the business in New Zealand of the former Australian Glass Manufacturers Company, Ltd, and for any subsidiary or associated company or any other company carrying on similar business in New Zealand. In addition to manufacturing and dealing in all kinds of glassware the company includes the business of engineering and iron and steel founders in its objects.

Prime Minister’s Movements.

Arrangements for a visit to Auckland toward the end of the present month have been made by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage. He has an engagement in his own electorate (Auckland West) - on Saturday, March 25, when he will take part in a school reunion celebration in the Herne Bay district. Mr Savage- will leave Auckland for Wellington by the Limited express the following night and participate in the official opening on March 27 of the building that is being constructed in Aotea Quay for the Social Security Department. The Prime Minister has not yet fixed the date oi his departure from Wellington for the north, but he hopes to leave on Tuesday, March 21, so as to have three days in which to make an inspection of Auckland manufacturing industries. Matter for Appeal Court.

Before the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers), Robert Duke Monson was charged in the Supreme Court at Greymouth yesterday that on November 29 in Reefton he broke and entered by night the shop of William Duff and stole 16 wristlet watches of a total value of '.£32, and further that on the same date he received six wristlet watches valued at £ll 10s previously stolen from Duff’s shop, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. Accused pleaded not guilty. The 'jury acquitted Monson on the first count and convicted him on the second, with a strong recommendation to mercy, holding that accused was drunk and without criminal intent. The Chief Justice decided to reserve the verdict for an interpretation by the Court of Appeal. He admitted Monson to bail in self £2OO and two sureties of £lOO each.