DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 July 1938, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] PRISON FOR THEFTS. WANGANUI, .July 4. Bertram Gillman, labourer, 22, for the theft of a violin from a motor car, valued at £5O, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by Mr. Salmon, S.M. For the theft of a racing bicycle at Te Awamutu, valued at £l5, he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, concurrent.. NEWSPAPER DISPUTE. HASTINGS, July 3. With, the exception of a. few men, the members of the departments) affected by the “Hawke’s Bay Daily Mail” strike have returned' to work as usual. After a discussion with the union secretary, the company’s terms were accepted. Although reorganisation is still proceeding in one department, the production of the newspaper has returned to normal. ROTORUA ROBBERY " ROTORUA, July 4. Allegations that he had been brutally attacked, knocked down, and robbed of about £7, were made to the police by George W. Johnston, aged 48, Public Works foreman, on Saturday evening. Johnston, who later was admitted to hospital, with severe facial injuries, stated tlfat he had been accosted by two Natives in a street about 6 p.m. He alleged that, the Natives dragged him along the road for some distance robbing him of £7, while he was unconscious on the footpath. PRISONERS SENTENCED. DUNEDIN, July 4. Thomas Anzac Reid McGillivray, 21. Ashley Maurice Deuchrass, 22, and Irvine Davis McEwan, 22. appeared before Judge Northcroft for sentence on house-breaking charges at Dunedin and Invercargill. McGillivray was admitted to three years’ probation. McEwen to two years’ probation, and' Deuchrass was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment. DRIVER IMPRISONED WZ-ZLLINGTON, July 4. The collision which occurred on the Hutt Road on Saturday evening, between a railway bus and a motor-car, had a s'equel at the i Magistrate's Court, to-day, when Owen Bruce Carter, 50, farm labourer, pleaded guilty to intoxication when’ 'in charge of a car, also to' driving without a license. Accused was proceeding from .town to Featherston, and swerved on a straight part of the road n'ear the overhead bridges. He' struck the bus, and, with his front wheels shattered, continued for 234 feet before coming to a stop. On the intoxication charge he was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour. INTOXICATED DRIVERS. DUNEDIN, July 2. Intoxicants taken to relieve heavy colds had disastrous effects for two motorists. Thompson Vickers, aged G 7. and Kenneth Lawrence Kearney, aged 24, who were both fined £2O and had their licences suspended for a year. ASHBURTON, July 4. ’Hector Claude McDonald, Manager e-f the United Friendly Societies - Dispensary, was fined £25, and was delicensed till July 1940, on a. charge- of being intoxicated while in charge of a car. Defendant was arrested after a chase by n traiiic. inspector and a constable, and after McDonald ignored a signal to stop. Counsel said that defendant, visited friends and had a drink, which took effect, when he. went. out. in the cold air.