LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bookmaker Heavily Fined. As the result of a police raid on Saturday, William George Upfold pleaded guilty in. the Magistrates’ Court, Auckland, yesterday, to a charge of bookmaking. The police said Upfold’s business was probably one of the biggest of its kind in New Zealand. He had one previous conviction. He was fined £l5O.

Coupons for Clothing. Arrangements are being made, states the rationing controller, Mr J. E. Thomas,.. for an earlier release, by about a month or six weeks, of the second half-year’s allocation of M coupons for clothing and footwear than had originally been intended. The rationing was enforced on May 28 of this. year on the basis of 52 M coupons for 12 months, only 26 of these to be redeemable in the first' six months, which end on November 30. This does not mean, however, that the year’s allocation is to be increased. It is simply a matter of making the second period coupons available earlier. Coupons still held for the first period of the year will, of course, be redeemable after November 30. Theft of Canteen Funds.

John Alexander Finlay, aged 19, soldier, pleaded guilty before Mr E. Maunsell, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Blenheim, to three charges involving the theft of canteen and patriotic funds totalling £66 10s. He was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention. Frederick Alexander Billens, aged 30, charged with aiding and abetting Finlay, received a similar sentence. The police said that sums belonging to the field ambulance, National Patriotic Fund Board, and Post and Telegraph Department, were taken from the Y.M.C.A. canteen at a camp, the amount of £5B being recovered. Billens was employed in the canteen and possessed keys. He showed Finlay where the cash was kept, and then arranged to leave fhe doors open for him. Both accused had lists of previous convictions and had been in Borstal institutions.

Gifts Acknowledged. The matron of Sedgley Home acknowledges with thanks receipt of the following gifts:—Cakes: Mesdames Harold Beetham, Sydney Smith, D. James, C. Rogers, H. B. Maunsell, W. Dalziell, W. James (Upper Plain), Miss Morrison, Sir W. Perry; roses and shrubs, Mr A. S. Kempthorne; case of grape fruit and darning wool, Mrs A. Beetham; scones and pikelets, Mrs Styles; sheep, Mr Laird Me'erdith; hares, Mr H. M. Boddington; vegetables, Mr W. G. Groves; cold meat, etc., Messrs P. J. Borthwick and Co., Riverside Golf Club; bananas, Mrs W. A .Burling; bread, scones, etc., St. Matthew’s Ladies’ Guild; boots, Mrs E. J. Rich; football boots, Mr E. J. Brown; table billiards and bowls, estate late Miss A. M. Brown; ducks, North Wairarapa Acclimatisation Society; preserved eggs, Mrs T. A. Brown; stores, cotton, etc., Mrs Falloon (Railway Crescent; entertainment at pictures, Mr H. Reid.

Gives protection against Influenza. 30 Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure