DOMINION NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1939, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS

[PER prebb association.] TOWN BOARD’S LOSS. AUCKLAND, March 17. Thieves entered the Tuakau Town Board Offices, early yesterdaj' morning. by smashing a. panel in the front door. They blew open the safe in the strongroom, and stole £43 in notes and silver. After gaining entrance on the bottom floor of the Town Hall building, they forced the door leading to the Town Board offices, with a jemmy. The money stolen included £5. £l, and 10/- notes. THEFT OF CAMERA CHRISTCHURCH, April 15. The theft of a camera valued at £6 from a parked car in Bealey Avenue, was admitted by William Malcolm Leitch, a labourer, 22, when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Leitch was sentenced by Mr. F. F. Reid, S.M., to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Detective J. J. Halcrow, who prosecuted, said that Detective Alty, while making inquiries at a secondhand shop had found that accused had sold a valuable camera there, giving a false address.

NEW BRIDGE OPENED. PALMERSTON N., April 15

Built at a total cost of £83,000, including the road approaches, a. concrete trestle bridge over the Whirokino Swamp, south of Foxton. was opened by the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Semple). The trestle is the second longest, concrete, structure of its kind in the Dominion, being of !)() spans, each of 40 feet, the longest of the type being the Rakaia river bridge in Canterbury. The trestle provides an all-weather route on the important Wellington-Auckland highway. On many occasions floods have seriously interrupted traffic. Plans are under way for a new bridge over the river at the southern end, the trestle replacing the old Humpback bridge.

FOG AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, April 17. Incoming shipping was held up for several hours, this morning, owing to a. dense fog over the inner harbour. The Matson liner Monterey, from California, was obliged to anchor off North Head -at 6.45 a.m., and was unable to move towards her berth for three hours. The Aorangi, from Sydney, close behind her, had to remain in the stream for a considerable lime, berthing about 11.30 a.m. The Mahaiia. from Gladstone, Queensland, arrived early this morning, her berthing being delayed until later in the day. ’[’he Korara, from Gisborne. anchored until the fog started to lift about 10 o’clock. From the. early morning, the air resounded with foghorns and warning bells. The early ferry boats were delaved.-