MR LATHAM LIKELY TO RETIRE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21177, 30 May 1934, Page 11

MR LATHAM LIKELY TO RETIRE

| AUSTRALIAN MINISTER JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ; LIKELY i | (Received May 30, 12.5 a.m.) ! CANBERRA, May 29. j It is reliably stated (hat. Mr J. G. Latham, Federal All orney-G en cra 1, who is now returning from Japan, will retire from politics before the next election. His sent, Kooyong, in Victoria, will possibly be contested Iby Mr R. G. Mcnzies (Victorian ■ All orney-G en er a 1). | Mr Latham is regarded as the ! most likely successor to Sir Frank Gavan Dutfy, Chief Justice of the j High Court of Australia, who is | about to ret ire. | WOMAN GUILTY OF FRAUD | « j SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT | (Received May 29, 11.5 p.m.) { SYDNEY, May 29. In tin.' Criminal Court; to-day, Aimee Belle Edols was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for obtaining .r:3909 by fraud while a sequestration order was in force against her under the Bankruptcy Act. Evidence showed that Mrs Edols obtained .113900 at different times by representing to a solicitor, Mr A. Edwards, that she had a large sum of mo:.ey coming to her from an investment. There was a fu.ther char ,e against her of having stolen C 3200, the property of Mr P-rcy McConnell, a retired Fiji planter, and still another charge that she contributed to her bankruptcy by gambling, losing between 1920 ar.d 1931 £ 14.000 on racehorses.