DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 January 1939, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

H’Elt PREBH ABBOCXATION.]

COUNSEL’S EX PDANATION. AUCKLAND, January IG

A. statement that, remarks addressed to the Bench by him on December If) were not. meant, to be personal were made in the. Magistrate’s Gouri 10-dav by Mi' I. J. Goldst.iue.

While appealing for a woman charged with illegally using an instrument, Mi' Goldstine had objected to “whisperings between the prosecutor and (ho Bench," and also expressed the opinion that such cases should be heard by an experienced Magistrate, and not by Justices of the Peace. When tbi‘ hearing was resumed loday before Justices, Mr Goldstine said his remarks had been given mo v e publicity ihau ho expected. Hi* assured (he Justices that nothing personal was intended. The explanation was accepted. M OTORING OFFENCES’. PALMERSTON NORTH, Jan. IG. Charged with unlawfully converting a car, James Trevor Morgan, a labourer, aged 2-1, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment; 'and Roy Alexander, a. seaman, aged 34, was, lined £lO to-day, in the Magistrate’s Court. Counsel for (lie accused said that both men were too drunk to know what they were doing. A penally of .£25 was imposed by Mr. H . P. Ln wry, S.M., on Allan William Uren, a. butcher, for being intoxicated in charge of a car, ami he was forbidden to hold a license for IS months.

Harry Brookfield, aged 4G. was similarly punished for a similar offence. Malcolm Gillies Rasmussen, a farm hand, aged 2!), of Oangamairo, was lined £2O and his license was cancelled for IS months, for being intoxicated in charge, of a motor-cycle.

“K EEP-FIT” MOVEMENT. WELLINGTON, January 17

Miss Mildred Meredith-Jones', one < f the leaders of England's “Keep Fit’’ Movement, governed by the Central Council of Physical Training and subsidised by the Government, arrived by the Awatea. She intends to investigate women’s physical work in the Dominion, and may take up the “Keep Fit" Movement, here. For th ret' years, she was physical mistress at the Notre Dame High School. Northampton, and following that, instructed at the Bishop Stortford Training College. The most outstanding development in the movement was the popularity of exercising to music. She says that older persons found music of great importance in maintaining' their interest, and relieving the tedium of simple routine exercise. She leaves to-morrow to stay with .Mrs C. Drummond of Master! on.