DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 May 1938, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PEE PBEBB ASSOCIATION.] MAN’S OFFENCE. WELLINGTON, May 20. "Whatever intentions this man may have had in doing this grossly indecent and offensive thing, it. is quite inixi usable." said Mr. Colliding. S.M.. in convicting Ernest. Samuel French (,f leaving tin indecent document on pr< mises occupied by another person. il<- was lined £25. in default two months' imprisonment.

FALSE PRETENCES ALLEGED CHRISTCHURCH. May 20. Oilier charges were pending, said Detective-Sergeant T. E. Holmes, ‘when Gordon Vincent Anderson was charged, to-day. with false pretences. He was remanded until May 20. on bail of ..£:tiio. The charge was that he obtained £250 from William Andrew Erasmusou, by falsely representing that this was for the part payment of £lOOO worth of sports goods, ordered from England by the Thompson Syndicate numbers four and five, of Auckland.

NAT lON A L DEFENCE. WELLINGTON. May 20. The. following letter has been sent to tin 1 Minister of Defence, on behalf of the conference of the Navy League in New Zealand: We wish to congratulate you upon your address at Dargavillo, on Tuesday last, and to assure you of the Navy League's appreciation of the steps you and your Government, are taking to strengthen the Dominion’s defences. Your statements regarding our sea and air defences. in which the League is vitally intt rested. were most, reassuring and encouraging, and we shall urge our organisation throughout the Dominion to help in shaping and extending what is the necessary public opinion to hack you up in the policy yt.it, outlined in your address.” The let ler is signed' by the President (Mr J. Sutherland Ross) and the secretary (Mr R. Darroch).

DEATH NOTICE CHIUSTCHURCH. May 19. Before Mr. E. ('. Lovvey. S.M., Mtiiiricc Sidney Albert Driscoll, Waiuta i Dr. A. L. Haslam), pleadotl not guilty to a. charge of having published an untrue notice of death.' After the hearing of evidence, a conviction was entered and Driscoll was ordered to pay costs. Detective-Sergeant 'l'. E. Holmes said that Driscoll, who was separated from his wife, had been living with a Mrs. Alice Coleman for .some time. Mrs. Coleman being known as Mrs. Driscoll. When she died on February IS. an advertisement was published in the 1 Christchurch newspapers describing her as Mrs. Driscoll, wife of Driscoll.

Dr. Haslam submitted that the. notice was not untrue, the/ woman having died, but that she' had l been misdescribed in the notice. Driscoll was ill at the time of Hie death, and thought Hiat the instructions he gave to the. undertaker were tor the funeral notice, which did not come under the Act, which covered death notices. Driscoll’s- intention was to give the womnn a .proper burial and to all her friends in New Zealand she was known as Mrs. Driscoll. The Magistrate said the description ■was untrue, but Driscoll had' apparently tried to do the right tiling. % ■ ■■