NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 55, 29 November 1937, Page 12

NEWS IN BRIEF

Youths Arrested

Detectives in a police patrol cai 7 arrested early yesterday morning two youths whom, it is alleged, they discovered making unauthorised use of a motor-car. The car was of the baby sports type, which has frequently been the object of such attention. It is understood that the two youths will be charged in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, this morning with a number of similar offences.

Price of Petrol. No action has yet been taken to increase petrol prices at Wellington. Resellers who have been approached, however, expect that the rise in production costs, freights and labour charges, will make a rise in price inevitable. It is pointed out that prices in free delivery areas, extending in the Wellington district to Taranaki on the west and Wairoa on the east, have been fixed by the Government.

Scout Commissioners Confer. Thirty Boy Scout commissioners from all parts of New Zealand attended a conference at Lower Hutt from Friday evening till Sunday evening. The Dominion chief commissioner, Mr. H. Christie, presided. Plans for a big forward movement in the organisation were made. It is likely that the conference will become an annual event.

Count von Luckner. Advice has been received by a Wellington friend of Count von Luckner that he expects to arrive at Auckland in the course of his world tour about the middle of January. Count von Luckner left Tahiti for Samoa last Friday, and intends to spend three weeks there. “My trip is a private visit; a kind of wedding present to the countess, when I promised to bring her to ‘God’s Own Country,’ ” he writes. “When I left New Zealand I promised to come back, and my coming is the fulfilment of my promise. It shows how much I enjoyed my stay in New Zealand.”