WAIKATO ITEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 69, 21 March 1919, Page 6

WAIKATO ITEMS.

BOY SEVERELY IN JURED. I VALUELESS CHEQUES CASE. | '.By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ; i HAMILTON", this day. j A boy named Norman Taylor has been I admitted to Hamilton Hospital from ! Matangi with a broken leg;. Taylor was I wrestling with a schoolmate when he fell. 'He is progressing satisfactorily. i | Alph ('rant, charged in Court to-day, with having obtained £.5 from Fraser ■ ."smith, of Frankton. by means of a valueless cheque. Walter Edwin Burrow gave evidence tha. he met accused in the Frankton Hotel by appointment. Accused asked the barman to cash a j cheque, which witness guaranteed. Gil- : . bert Henry Mair, of Cambridge, testified . ' that accused had no account in the bank ; on which the cheque was drawn. Grant ' i pleaded "Guilty.'' and was committed to j ; the Supreme Court for sentence. j Mandeno Jackson and Co. held a sale of Hamilton and Frankton sections yes- ; terday. There was a large attendance, j but bidding was slow. Only one section I was placed at auction, but several others ; have since been disposed of at the I owners' reserves. j