LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 20055, 21 December 1928, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Justice Smith, sill-inj; at AVellington, granted an interim injunction restraining -tlio Otorohanga Operatic Society from giving any further unauthorised performances of ‘A. Country Girl.' In tlio Conciliation*. Council at Wellington tho Wellington hairdressers readied an agreement on all points except the day of tho haltholiday and a small matter in connection with deduction of wages, which the parties desired should bo referred to the Court of Arbitration. Tho agreement is on tho lines of tho existing award. An extraordinary ‘ Gazette ’ notice issued last night announces (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington) that the General Assembly of tho Parliament of New Zealand has been prorogued till March 23, 1929. The following resolution was carried unanimously at a mass meeting of employees held in tlio yard at Hillside Railway Workshops yesterday at the luncheon hour:—“That this meeting protests against any form of premium bonus system being introduced in tho Railway Workshops.” Details of the census of slocks of (lour, wheat, and oats are given in a ‘Gazette’ published last night (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington). The flour slocks total 11,357 tons, wheat 5,722,731 bushels, and oats 1,508.009 bushels. Damage to one wing was suffered by Mr Douglas Mills’s Moth aeroplane when it landed at' the Hellbloek aerodrome yesterday afternoon (says a Press Association telegram from New Plymouth). It is understood that the machine will remain where it is till a new wing, arrives from Melbourne.! On liis arrival from Auckland cn route to Hastings Mr Mills taxied too far across'the grounds, and struck a gorse hedge with one wing, while tho other swung round and struck a ienco post. Neither Mr Mills nor the. mechanic (Smith) was injured. The machine was wheeled a mile down tlio mod and housed in a shed. That tho time had cumo when tho department should test out ail patent stock medicines before allowing them to bo placed on the market was the opinion expressed at a meeting of the Manawatu Dairy Farmers’ Union, which decided to send a deputation to the Minister of Agriculture (Mr G. W. Forbes) when Parliament is next in session in order to bring the _ matter before his notice. It was considered that even it tho medicines proved 25 per cent, effective tho farmers would know where they stood. in the Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, Harold Francis Reed, aged nineteen, came up for sentence on a charge of stealing sums_ of money amounting to £5 from his late employers, Messrs Kincaid, Ltd. lie was admitted to probation for two years. The magistrate (Mr E. D. Mosley) .said the only thing that weighed With the court was the poor position of the mother and family. There was nothing to bo said for the accused. Addressing Reed, His Worship said: “ You deliberately set out on a course of crime. You defrauded two employers. You are matriculated, and had every advantage. I am not going to suppress your name. When next you are employed your employer will know that you defrauded two oilier employers.”—Press Association Five charges of shoplifting were preferred in tho court at Christchurch against two women, Annie Celina Koftegast, aged thirty-six, and Anita Esther Wilson, aged twenty-eight, involving amounts totalling _£lG. The women, pleaded guilty. Chicf-dctcctivo Carroll stated that the accused were sisters wiio were seen taking away articles from Messrs Death and Co. Tho police on visiting tho residences of the accused discovered other articles which tho accused frankly admitted having taken from shops. Tho younger woman was married, with two childreil. Tlio magistrate (Air E. D. Aloslcy) said that these offences had extended over a lengthy period, lb was difficult to know exactly what to do with these women. Offences of this sort should bo dealt with by an adequate penalty. The accused would therefore be remanded till to-morrow. At tho Alosgicl Borough Council last night tho train services in general were discussed. Some correspondence was read from tho Green Island Borough Council regarding the stoppage of tho Ghristchurcli-lnvcrcargill midnight train at Alosgicl, and the question of making the express stop at Green Island a permanent and compulsory one. Tho council decided to support tho proposal, and to also ask that the InvercargillChristchurch night express be stopped at Mosgicl. Tho inspector to the Alosgicl Borough Council reported at last night’s meeting on an interview ho had had with Air Roberts, civil regarding a survey of the Riccarton district (East Taieri). with a view to this place being connected with the borough supply. The investigations were not complete, but the position was not a very hopeful one. He would bo prepared to add a report to tho plan of levels if tho council so desired. It was resolved to obtain tho report, which would not be a big outlay.