THEFT OF GOODS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 120, 14 February 1941, Page 11

THEFT OF GOODS

Prison Breakers Found Guilty (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 13. Three of the prisoners who escaped from the Auckland jail on October 1, Bryan James O'Hehir, John Henry Silva, and Randolph Reginald David Smith, were found guilty today on three charges of unlawful conversion of motor-ears, three charges of theft, and one charge of breaking and entering committed while they were at liberty.

Another prisoner. David Fraser "Watson, jointly charged, pleaded guilty and was remanded for sentence.

The goods stolen mostly comprised clothing, foodstuffs, and a wireless set.

ORCHESTRAL WORK Mr. Anderson Tyrer, the English composer and conductor, who is to leave New Zealand for Australia next month, is still | in contact with the symphony orchestra with which he has been associated for some months. One work in which this orchestra is to be heard soon is SnintSaens's “Africa.” for pianoforte and orchestra, with Miss Cara Hall, the brilliant young Wellington pianist, ns soloist. “Africa,” in a way, links the French composer Saint-Saens with England, tor this was the work he played, as solo pinnist, under the uuspices of the Cumbridge University Musical Society on Juno 12, IS£)2. On the following day the degree of Mus.D. was conferred upon him. Miss Cara Hall, who gained a scholarship which took her to the Royal Academy of Music, London, three years ago, returned to New Zealand only at the cud of last year, war conditions having made it inadvisable to stay in London. While there she made considerable progress in her studies, in which she gained high honours.