DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 May 1938, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] MAN MISSING. NELSON, April 30. No trace has been discovered of Charles Albert Muir, single, aged .-.4 of 29 Washington Valley, who has been missing since the night of April 19. INTOXICATED DRIVERS. WANGANUI, May 2. John Leonard Larsson and James Pyke Reynolds were each fined £2O, by Mr Salmon. S.M., for being intoxicated when in charge of motor cars. Reynolds’ license was cancelled for 12 months. SLY-GROG. DUNEDIN, April 30. In the Police Court at Milton on Friday, before Mr. 11. .1. Dixon. S.M.. John Robertson Parlane, described by the police as a. persistent offender who, sought deliberately to defy the law, was sentenced to three months imprisonment for sly grog-selling. SENTENCES REVISED WELLINGTON. May 2. The sentence on Thaddeus Edward Doody, by Mr. Justice Callan at Auckland. on February 1. to eighteen months’ hard labour, on each of two charges of theft, to be served cumulatively. has been varied by the Court of Appeal to twelve months' hard labour. on each charge, also to be served cumulatively. Edward James Young was sentenced to three years’ hard labour by Mr. Justice Fair at Auckland on February 3, after prisoner had pleaded guilty to a. charge of unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under 16. This sentence has been varied by the Court ot Appeal to 12 months' hard labour. ROYAL REGALIA. WIIANGAREI. May 2. It is estimated that between seven and eight, thousand people from all parts of the north visited the exhibition at. Whangarei of the Royal robes and regalia used during the Corona'tion. The tour of these r.obes throughout the Dominion opened at. Whangarei on Saturday and closed last night. The robes of rich purple embroidered with gold, displayed on wax figures, were arranged tastefully and sealed in a glass case. Mrs. Murray Fuller is managing the exhibition. Mr. F. B. Dwyer, reception officer of the Internal Affairs Department, represents the Government.