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FENCING WIRE STOLEN GISBORNE, Feb. 6
f,eo Waite, 22, who had taken fencing wire valued at. £46, the property of lhe Native Department, from a. back road near Rotorua, and sold it. to a farmer for £32, was admitted to probation for two years by Mr. Walton, S.M.
GROCERS’ CONFERENCE. TIMARU, February 6
Forty-five delegates are attending the sixteenth conference of the New Zealand Master Grocers’ Federation, which opened at Caroline Bay this afternoon, Mr M. J. Campbell presiding. The delegates were welcomed' by the Mayor (Mr W. G. Tweedy), and other speakers were Messrs Carr, M.P., E. Darroch (President of the Chamber of Commerce) and C. D. Gibson (South Canterbury Grocers’ Association). The conference will conclude on Friday, and in the interim, the annual report will be presented, officers elected; papers read, and 2G remits dealt with.
ECONOMICS EXAMS
WELLINGTON. February 5
The following 'are the cabled results for Canterbury University College in the New Zealand University examination in economics for M.A. M. Com., and 8.A., stages II and III: M.A. and Honours: J. E. P. Jones, second class. M.A.: Coila M. Stephens, pass.
M. Com. and Honours: A. N. V~. Dobbs, second class; R. B. McNish. second class; M. J. S. Nestor, pass; P. B. Watts, second class. Second 8.A.: Coral T. Anderson, Mary K. Kent, C. Miller, Betty H. Morgan, F. J. Tempero, B. G. Tindale.
Final 8.A.: S. S. Amies, Barbara M. Chisholm. L. D. Glenday, D. W. Oxnam, G. D. L. White. Pre-Requisite for M.A.: Edna H Hyslop.
DIVINITY DEGREES
CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 6
The University Senate decided, today to approach the Minister of Education for power to confei’ degrees of theology. The suggestion made that the churches organise a Board of Studies, and secure a Parliamentary charter enabling the Board to confer degrees, was not acceptable to any of the churches concerned, stated a menwrandufn submitted by the Church representatives. The memorandum proposed that degrees should be available only to those who were already graduates of the University of New Zealand, or some other approved university. The Senate, to-day, agreed to recognise Doctor V. E. Galway, of Dunedin, who is to be appointed to the Chair of Music at Otago University, as a Professor of the University of New Zealand. GAMBLING FINES. WEDDINGTON, February G. Four Chinese 1 and five Europeans, arrested. during gaining raids on Saturday evening, appeared at the Magistrate’s Court, to-day. Ah Wong, 54, gardener, pleaded guilty to using premises in Vivian Street, of which he was the; occupier, as a common gaining house'. He was fined £3O.
Michael Joseph Cain, G 3, labourer, and Alfred Thomas Milner, 35, painter, were each fined £2 for being on the premises. Willie Yee, laundryman, similarly chargeci, and To Ah Wong, respecting Taranaki Street premises, were each fined £5O.
Chin Yee Lim. 41. laundryman, Giovenni Calvini, waterside worker, Henry James McKenzie, 5.1, cook, Tsc Kit, Fay, 44, fruiterer, and John Tito, 37, seaman, were each fined £2, for being on the premises.
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