OAMARU ITEMS

Evening Star, Issue 22541, 8 January 1937, Page 12

OAMARU ITEMS

MAGISTRATE'S COURT RETURNS The amount in fines (with costs) col* lected in the Oamaru Magistrate’* Court for the quarter ended December was £174 7s fid. The following are particulars regarding the quarterly returns :—Number of, sittings before a 1 magistrate were: Civil 12, criminal 16; number of sitings before a justice of the peace; Civil 0, criminal 9; total sittings for the quarter—civil 12, criminal 25; number of sittings disposed of by a magistrate 39, by a justice of the. peace 0; number of plaints heard, 41; total amount sued for, £359 Os sd; number of applications heard in court or chambers, 9; number of criminal cases against males 61, against females 3; number of cases heard in the Children’s Court, 8; fines collected for the quarter, £174 7s fid. WARDEN'S COURT During the quarter ended December 31 the Oamaru Warden’s Court issued four miners’ rights, received three applications, dealt with 24 registrations, and granted one mining license. One defended case and one disputed application were heard. PERSONAL Mr C. F. Jones, LL.B., A.R.A.N.Z.* of the recently-established Oamaru branch of the Farm Accounting Association of New Zealand, and the Otago Farmers’ Union Mutual Fire Insurance Association, has received advice of having completed the bachelor of commerce degree, New Zealand University. Mr M. S. Tyrrell, of the Dunedin staff of the Customs office, will shortly relieve the Oamaru Collector of Customs (Mr J. W. M'Stay), who proceeds on his annual leave. Mr and Mrs Ivan Gardiner, of Auckland, who spent the Christmas and New ■ Year holidays with Mr G. M. Gardiner, and Miss Gardiner, of Greta street, Oamaru, returned to their home on Wednesday, travelling by ' motor. Mr Arthur’ Curie, of the Bank of New Zealand, has left Oamaru to take up a position at the Wyndham branch office. Queen’s Hotel Guests.—Mr John A, Bradley (London), Mr and Mrs C. C. Smithson, Mr Bruce Smithson (Auckland),* Mrs - Mitchell, Mr Mitchell (Greymouth), Mr J. R. Preece (Timaru), Miss E. Egerton, Mrs Loft (Winton), Mrs E. E. Nixon (Gore), Mr J. H. Johnston, Miss Roberta Johnston (Invercargill). SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE DESTROYED The destruction by. fire ’of. a shepi ■'herd’s three-roomed cottage situated on the Livingstone side,of Longland’s 1 Station, Kyeburn, and owned by Mr Joseph Preston; has caused the Oamaru. police to make inquiries. According to information by Mr Preston the fire must have occurred within the past three weeks, but the cause of the outbreak is unknown. No one was occupying the cottage at the time of the fire, and the cause of the destruction of tho building by fire is mysterious. The cottage, which was valued at £3OO, wa* insured.

OPERA HOUSE

One of gangland’s cleverest ways of circulating “ hot ” stolen gold bullion is used as the foundation fro romantio drama in Richard Dix’s picture, ‘ Special Investigator,’ screening at the Opera House, Oamaru, on Saturday. The star appears as a man who turn* special secret agent for the Department of Justice, to avenge the mol> slaying his brother, and his search for the killers' ends at an abandoned Nevada mine. Margaret Callahan draw* Dix into dangerous romance as the sister of his brother’s slayer. Erik Rhodes, Sheila Terry, Owen Davis, jun., and J. Carroll Naish have other important roles in this adaptation _of the Erie Stanley Gardner _ magazine serial, ‘ Fugitive Gold.’ Louis King directed the picture, which was produced at the R.K.O. Radio Studios, with Cliff Reid in charge. Striking a brand-new note in feature comedy settings, the noted clown team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey abandon the present era in favour of the hectic days of ’49 in their R.K.O. Radio vehicle, ‘ Silly Billies,’ to be screened at the Opera House on Saturday, With its scenes laid in the old Indian territory just as the gold rush’ to California is starting, with the two famous comics cast as a pair of quack dentists, and with all the picturesque features of the period—stage coaches,wagon trains, Indian cavalry troops, and the rest of _ it—highlighting the story, ‘ Silly Billies ’ represents a genuine novelty in motios picture entertainment.