DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1933, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ACCOUNTANT SENTENCED. AUCKLAND, July 17. Richard Dias, who admitted stealing £353 from the firm which had employed him as an accountant, was sentenced to-day to two years’ reformative detention. SECOND OFFENCE. AUCKLAND, July 17. William Henry Pollock, 53, was sentenced to three year’s reformative for stealing £5 5/1 from the timber company of which he was secretary. The Judge said the prisoner had been convicted in 1922 of stealing trust money in Wellington. INQUEST WITHOUT BODY. AUCKLAND, July 17. The unusual course of holding an inquest without a body will be followed in the case of Edward Henry Hawkins a young man, who is believed to have been drowned in the harbour on May 29. The Attorney-General,having received a report from the Magistrate that the missing man’s body is believed to have been destroyed or to be lying in a place whence it is not recoverable, has directed Magistrate Hunt to proceed the inquest. NZ. MEAT BOARD. WELLINGTON, July 16. The Returning Officer of the Meat Producers Board ha s received the following nominations Hor file three vacancies on the Board for producers’ representatives: —H. D. Acland (Christchurch), sitting member; Edward Averill (Hastings),-James Carr (Methven), R. S. Chadwick (Dannevirke), J. O. Coop (Ataahua, Canterbury),’ AV. D. Lysnar (Gisborne), J. D. Ormond (Hawke’s Bay), Sir J. Perry (Masterton), a sitting member. The election is on August 31, when the Electoral Committee assembles at Wellington.

CRUELTY TO WIFE. GISBORNE, July 15'. A separation order was issued by a Magistrate this morning in a case in which a fragile girl, 19 years of age, told a remarkable story of unhappiness and persistent cruelty. Her husband is an amateur wrestler and according to statements by counsel, cruelty commenced on Christmas Day, 1932, a few days after their marriage. Defendant practised upon her holds he had learned in the art of wrestling. On one occasion, he gave her an “aeroplane spin,” and recently, after boxing with her, he picked her up and threw her into a bath full of water. The Magistrate gave defendant a severe warning to keep away from his wife in future. CHINESE DRUG ADDICT. CHRISTCHURCH, July 15. A Chinese who snatched tobacco from the hands of a detective on two occasions, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court. The case was adjourned for four months after ChiefDetective Dunlop had stated that accused was probably a drug addict. Accused was Low Hoon Sheong, alias Lowe Hoon Shey, 38 years of age, a gardener, of Middleton, and he was charged with being an idle and disorderly person in that he had no lawful visible means of support. Accused gave no sign of understanding when the charge was read out. Chief-Detective Dunlop said that he was not satisfied regarding the mentality of accused, who was probably a drug addict. When he was at the police station he went to other prisoners property to see if he could get tobacco. He looked as if his drugs had been cut off and he had had to fall back on tobacco. Many people to whom he spoke gave him a smoke, but he wanted the lot.

AMBULANCE FLAG. CHRISTCHURCH, July 15. A miniature history of a great organisation, the history of which goes back for over 800 years, is contained on the flag which has been presented to the St. John Ambulance Association by Bishop Brodie, a member of the executive and a generous supporter ot of its work for many years. Last evening, when the new headquarters in Peterborough Street weie officially opened, two flags' flew from the staffs on the building. One was the Union Jack, and the otjrnr the white flag of the association with the familiar black Maltese cross badge in the centre. The presentation flag, which will be flown only on special occasions, will be the flag of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. It is really the flag of the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, the full title of the Order, which was founded in Jerusalem dining the First Crusade, and from which the modern St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade are descended.