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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20502, 19 May 1938, Page 8

STOP PRESS NEWS

I WAHtATO WINTER MEETING ITONNERRE SCRATCHED Tonnerre was scratched for the Stewards’ Handicap at 2.14 p.m. toJ day for the first day of the Waikato meeting. SOUTH CANTERBURY RACES Timaru Cup: 6—o Mungatoon, (N. Cavaney), 1; 7—7 Last Refrain, 2; 6—5 Davolo, 3. All started. Craigmore Steeplechase: I—l Flashlight, 1; 3—3 Sunward, 2; 2—2 Uncle Jim, 3. Scr.: Polydora. T+..Q** * • ' T MISS DUNCAN WINS ROTORUA LADIES’ GOLF TITLE ROTORUA, Thursday. The Rotorua Ladies’ golf championship was retained by Miss J. Duncan (Wanganui) this afternoon when she j defeated Mrs G. W. Foote (Whangarei) in the final by 7 up and 5 to play. Mrs Foote was playing below form. In the final of tne Arikikapakapa Cup Miss M. Pearce (Wairarapa), beat Mrs Waddell (New Plymouth), one up at the 19th. APPEALS SUCCESSFUL INTOXICATION CASES The appeals of Maurice Cronin, motor trimmer and Cornelius McDevitt, labourer, both of Hamilton, against i their conviction for intoxication while | in charge of a motor-vehicle were upi held by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in the Supreme Court, Hamil- | ton, this afternoon and the convictions were quashed. INTOXICATED MOTORIST NINE MONTHS’ GAOL INVERCARGILL, Thursday Glarence Herbert Hibbs, married was sentenced to-day by Mr Justice Kennedy to nine months’ hard labour and disqualified from holding a license for five years for being intoxicated while in charge of a car and by an act or omission causing death. On a charge of negligently driving a car thereby causing death Hibbs was ordered to come up for sentence If called on within one year.