DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1934, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.] VALUELESS CHEQUES WELLINGTON. December 1. Sentences totalling three months’ imprisonment were imposed to-day by the Magistrate, Mr. W. F. Stillwell, on Caleb Lincoln Carr on two charges of false pretences through obtaining money by issuing valueless cheques. ROBBERY AT MANSE. AUCKLAND, December 3. ’ Rev. G. A. D. Spence, who a week ago, was appointed to the charge of Knox Presbyterian Church, returned home from the church last night, to 'find that articles and cash, totalling £35, had been stolen, including two suits, and his wife’s gold watch, valued at £2O. The watch and other articles stolen were presents. SHOPLIFTERS SENTENCED WANGANUI, December 3. Three married women, Jane Williscroft, Amy E. Steele, and Thelma Lovett,, were charged before Mr Salmon, S.M., with a series "of shoplifting. Accused would visit shops with prams. One would engage the assistant in conversation, and inspecting goods, and the other two would steal, and place the goods in the pram. All three had young families. Williscroft and Lovett, on account of pregnancy were admitted to probation for 12 months, and Steele received two months’ imprisonment.

ARAPUNI DAM. HAMILTON, December 3. Five panels of the needle dam were torn away at Arapuni. The structure has been erected during past months for the purpose of unwatering the tail-race, upstream from the present power-house site. It was part of the construction scheme to increase the plant capacity. The panels were about 12 feet by 3 feet, constructed of heavy beams of matai, bolted to the girders of the dam. The force of the backwash from No. 4 turbine caused the bolts to give way. No damage was done, and the construction work will not be impeded to any extent. CITRUS LAND AUCKLAND, December 2. After a hearing of four days, the action in which an Englishman claimed damages on account of alleged misrepresentation of the quality of land at Kaeo, was finished to-day when Mr. Justice Fair entered judgment for plaintiff for £1026 12s. This comprises payments made for the section of land, plus exchange and interest and expenses incurred by plaintiff in coming to and finding work in New Zealand. Plaintiff was Tom Walter Thornton, of Matamata, who when an architect in London bought a section at Kaeo for citrus fruit growing and defendant was William Henry Bail, a. former director of New Zealand • Citrus Plantations, Ltd. The land was sold to him in 1930 for fruit farming.