LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 20151, 16 April 1929, Page 11

LOCAL AND GENERAL

An. interesting ease was heard m the Whangarei Court yesterday, when L. Aldridge, of Russell, owner ot the launch Alma G., was charged with a breach of the Shipping and Seamen s Act in that lie allowed the launch to go to sea without having the vessel suveyed. Aldridge said that Zanc Grey had chartered the launch, and had gone to Whitianga for deep sea fishing. Immediately the launch was returned to him he took it to Auckland and surrendered it for survey. The magistrate reserved his decision. Pleading guilty to a charge of loitering in High street, Uannevirke, for the purposes of betting, William Joseph Donovan, who keeps a tobacconist’s business, was fined £35 by Mr J. Miller, S.M. The police stated that Donovan’s ( chief business was betting, and be was believed to be agent for a big bookmaker. The magistrate declined to accept the plea of counsel for delendant ' that Donovan was only a silver bettor in view of the fact that over £SO was found on him after his arrest, which was the seque' to a cycle ride by Sergeant Martin on March 30 last. I At a meeting of the Court of Directors of the Royal Humane Society of . New Zealand it was decided to award a silver medal to Lewis Roderick Park, fisherman, of Raglan, for attempting to rescue William Henry Park, aged fiftyeight, Clarence Walter, aged twenty- | six, and Louis Lawrence Bertling, aged ' seventeen, from drowning at the Raglan Rar on January 20, 1029. When crossing the Raglan bar a launch in which were all of the party named was swamped and sank, leaving the occupants clinging to tile wreckage some distance off the land. W. H. Park was several times washed off' the wreckage, but his son, Lewis Roderick Park, suct coedcd in getting him hack each time. ' The father became exhausted and died, but the son held him for a long time alter until separated by a big breaker. Park then assisted Walter, and held him up till a breaker separated them, and Walter sank. Young Park then made for the shore against a strong ebb tide. On the way ho found Bertling, • who could not swim, hanging on to some wreckage, and being swept out to sea. Park after a long struggle brought | Bertling to the shore, having been in i the water over two hours. Park was picked up on the beach much exhausted, and was in a critical state for a week, requiring medical attention.