LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Appeal Board Sessions. The Wairarapa Manpower Committee will sit at Carterton today, at Martinborough and Featherston on November 26, at Eketahuna on November 30 and at Masterton on December 3, 14 and 17. The No. 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board will sit in Masterton on November 27 and 30 and on Decembei’ 1 and 2. Escapees Recaptured. A pursuit lasting three days and two nights was made for two men who broke out from the Nelson gaol on Tuesday night. It culminated in an orchard to which the men-were tracked. One of them, it was believed, possessed a shotgun, but they were unable to escape through a cordon of police and residents and were rearrested. No attempt was made by the men to use the gun, though it was loaded.

Money Found in Bottle. ’ Two boys playing in a vacant section in Cook Street, Auckland, yesterday afternoon found about £l3O stuffed into a hair-oil bottle. The money, which was a miscellaneous collection of notes, had been hidden beneath a toitoi bush and was in good order. The boys, who were aged about 11, did not remove the bottle but immediately went in search of a constable. The money, which is thought to be the proceeds of a robbery, was handed over to the police.

Child Found Drowned.

Parties consisting of members of the police force, the Home Guard-, and the E.P.S., engaged in a two-day search for q missing child, Dale Hazelwood, aged '2| years, whose body was found in a pond at the rear of the Boulcott School, Lower Hutt, on Saturday. He had been missing from his home since Thursday, and that night appeals for information were broadcast together with his description. The place where the body was found is not far from his home, which is separated by the golf links from the school.

Theft by Secretary. Thefts amounting to £579 from the Bay of Islands Hospital Board were admitted by Angus Campbell Mac Murray, secretary, of Kawakawa, in the Magistrates’ Court, Whangarei. There were 15 charges. The chairman of the board said irregularities regarding the banking of the medical superintendent’s salary caused an auditor to be called in. He discovered shortages for which Mac Murray admitted full responsibility. The shortages included a special Christmas Comforts Fund ana £5O belonging to a patient who had died. Mac Murray’s salary was £350 and he had a free house. Mac Murray, it was said, served in the Great War and was invalided home from Egypt, in 1940. All the money had been spent beer drinking, possibly as a result of ■ domestic trouble or his nervous condition. He had no means oi restitution. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.