LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 20000, 18 October 1928, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL

.U Hamilton a sentence of fourteen dav.,’ imprisonment was imposed on Henry James Iteid, aged twenty-tour, tor the conversion of a motor car at To Arolia. lie aljaiidoned the ear when lie was pursued by the owner in another ear. P>oy Morris, a young mail who 101 l the Hamilton Public Hospital on Saturday night, cycled to Olmupo, committed two burglaries, and returned to tho hospital, was committed to the Supremo Court lor sentence. iidward Kenneth Currie was committed for sentence on five charges ot stealing equipment valued at £i--i from radio shops.—Press Association. A man, charged at InvercargiU as the outcome ot the intrusion ot a *• Peeping Toni” in the early hums oC the morning ot September Pi into the yard of premises occupied by william' Itiebardson .Brash, at P'J Robertson street. Liodistaruc, was brought before tho magistrate (Mr (1. Cruiekhhanks, S.M.) in the Police Court. An application by counsel tor tho suppression ot bis name was granted. The accused pleaded nub guilty, and alter hearing the evidence ilio magistrate reserved bis decision. In tho Magistrate’s (mun at Palmerston Morth Victor Pred Hail nleaded guilty to tour charges ot theft and one ot false pretences at Oinki and Podding, the sums involved totalling £o 12s (id. The magistrate refused probation in view of the fact that the accused had been convicted previously ot lal&c pretences. The accused was sentenced to three mouths’ imprisonment on each charge, the terms to he cumulative. ilo wdl therefore. go to gaol for iittccu mouths. —Press Association. At Lyttelton John llowiek. master ot the coastal steamer John, was lined 10s lor hurtling naked lights in a vessel which was carrying petroleum exceeding 200 gallons, such lights not having been approved in writing by a marine surveyor. The ease being the first of its kind heard in the dominion, a heavy penalty was not asked tor. Tho olfeneo arose through repairs having to bo made to the dynamo, and the master was absent from the ship at tho time. Tho regulation, it was said, was nut eiilorced in Auckland.