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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19882, 11 May 1936, Page 6

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PRISON FOR THEFT, >— "mm* TE KUITI LAND OFFICIAL. | FOURTEEN CHARGES ADMITTED. AUCKLAND, Monday. Having admitted 14 changes of theft ! while in the employ of the Lands and Survey Department, Te Kuiti, Richard Cleverdon was sentenced at the Supreme Court this morning by Mr Justice Fair, to two years' reformative detention. The prosecution stated that the total amount involved was £391. Accused had got in with drinking companions and the thefts had spread over a period. STOCK EXCHANGE. TRANSACTIONS IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, May 11. The following sales were recorded on the Stock Exchange: Bonds: 32 per cent., 1942, £lOl 3s 9d; 4 per cent., 1941, £103; 1960, £lO3. Bank of New South Wales, £33 2s 6d; Australian Gas “A/* £7 12s; Associated News, pref., 2s 3d: Henry Jones, 40s. EGYPTIAN POLITICS. AN ALL-WAFD CABINET. NAHAS PASHA AS PREMIER. CAIRO, IVlay 10. Nahas Pasha has formed an all—i Wafd Cabinet, with himself as Premier and Minister for the Interior. CRICKET TOURISTS. ENGLAND’S POSSIBLE TEAM. NEW BLOOD PROBABLE. WE'.LINGTONI Monday. A. J. Richardson, the ex-Au6tralian Tost cricketer, v<ho is now playing League cricket in England and who is on his way L«ck to Adelaide, arrived by the Remuera to-day. He holds the view that on present appearances much new blood will be in the team England would send out to Australia this year. Younger players in England, ho thought, wore left too long before they were given a chance. He had an idea that G. O. Allen, of Middlesex, might get the captaincy. He said that it seemed as if the bodylino business was finished with and agreed that it probably resulted in the finish of Larwood in big cricket. Richardson loaves to-night for i Auckland to connect with the Niagara.