ALLEGED THEFT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 109, 9 May 1924, Page 8

ALLEGED THEFT

A young man named John Alexander' Fettes, described as a clerk, appeared before Mr. E. Page, S.M.,'at the Magistrate's Court to-day on a charge of omitting to account for £66 10s 10d, received from the New Zealand Express Co., and requiring him to account for same .to Norman Baker and Longhurst, Ltd.: Chief-Detective Kemp said the accused was extradited from Sydney, and arrived in Wellington' yesterday. He asked for a remand to the 16th: May. Mr. J. F. B. Stevenson, who appeared lor accused, applied for bail. '"'■'.

The Chief-Detective opposed the application. The accused, he said, was married on the day before he left for Sydney, and saw fit to leave his wife the day after he married her.

Bail was refused.

: Wellington is to have a Protestant Hall, and a company has been formed with that object. The " Mercantile Gazette" reports- registration of1 the Protestant Hall Company, Ltd.,-a private company. : Office: Wellington. Capital: £250, into 250 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Wellington—Lucy Hall 41, W. H. M'Anerin 42, W. Little .42, Jennie Burnett 41, D. Steptoe 42, H. Hunter 42. Objects:"'.To purchase, take on lease, or exchange, or otherwise acquire, . land with buildings thereon for use as , a.. Protestant or Orange Hall, offices, shops, caretaker's living quarters, and general incidental.

The 15th: Battery dances, which are held every Saturday, in the Old Navals' Hall, are becomjng very popular with dancers. Patrons apparently realise that floor and music could not be bettered. The decorating and catering have also heen well arranged for by an energetic committee: ■

Messrs. Harcourt and Co. will sell at their rooms, 195, Lainbton quay, on Tuesday next, at 2.30 p.m., a commodious Broomed residence, No. 29, The Parade, Island Bay.