DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 July 1927, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

■ ppr Preei Association.) N.Z. UNIVERSITY COUNCIL. WELLINGTON .July 19. The New Zealand University Council to-night announced the result of the election by the heads of the secondary schools of New Zealand of two representatives to sit on the Council. The election resulted in the return of Mr C. R. Cresswell, M.A., headmaster of Wellington College and Mr W. A. Armour. M.A., headmaster of Napiei’ Boys’ High School. The election for the technical schools’ representative resulted in the return of Mr J. H. Howell, director of the Wellington Technical College. LABOURER’S THEFT. OAMARU, July 20. “You will have to get the drink out of your system,” said Mr Bundle, S.M., in sentencing David Lauder, a labourer, to one month’s imprisonment on a charge of theft to-day. Lauder went to a second-hand dealer to sell a pair of boots, and when the owner’s attention was diverted, lie stole two coats from the shop. The dealer paid one pound to Lauder for the boots and one coat, but when he» endeavoured to sell the other, the dealer recognised it, and called the police, Lauder being arrested on charges of drunkenness and breach of his probation order.