LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Brother Seen in Pictures. A Marine who visited the State Theatre this week saw in a picture which was being exhibited there his brother (an officer) whom he had not met for some years, and who took part in the bombing of Tokio by an American force some time ago. Sly Grog Seller Sent to Gaol. For selling a bottle of wine to a marine for five dollars in Dixon Street on Monday last, Margaret Cushworth, domestic, aged 59, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, to selling liquor without having a licence, was sentenced by Mr Stout, S.M., to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour. Sent to Gaol for Begging. Convicted of being idle and disorderly in that she was found begging for alms from servicemen and civilians in Manners Street, Wellington, on Monday afternoon, Kathleen Mary Hennessy, domestic, aged 54, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour, by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday. Remuera Seat. A recommendation to the incoming committee of the Remuera branch of the National Party that the selection of a candidate for the general election should be made by a postal ballot of members was unanimously adopted at the annual meeting. The sitting member is Mr W. P. Endean, who left for overseas recently as delegate to the Empire Parliamentary Conference. It was stated that Mr Endean had refused at the last annual meeting to allow his name to go to a ballot, and he recently announced his intention of contesting the seat. The chairman said that if the committee decided to call for nominations for a ballot it would be unwise to do so till Mr Endean returned, or he was given ample opportunity to submit his name. Gaming House Raid. Thirty-eight men arrested in a gam-ing-fhouse in Auckland on Monday night were charged in the Auckland Magistrates’ Court yesterday before Mr J. Morling, S.M., 36 on charges of having been found without lawful excuse in a common gaming-house known as the “Federal Club” and two on charges of having conducted the business of a common gaming-house. 1 Six men who had a previous convic- ' tion for a gaming offence were each fined £5. Another was fined £3, and ! the remaining 29 were each fined £2 ’ and costs. Samuel John Dillamore, . aged 61, and Nicholas Mirinovich, : aged 54, kitchen hand, both pleaded ' guilty to assisting in the conduct of the business of a common gaminghouse. Dillamore was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within four months. Mirinovich was fined £lO and costs.