DOMINION NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 October 1939, Page 11

DOMINION NEWS

[per press association.] * SALESMAN’S THEFTS. * WELLINGTON, October 20. p John Grendon Phillips, 45, salesman, for theft of money amounting to £3ob, 9/8 from Wellington Motors, Ltd., J when acting as manager, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Blair to IS months , reformative detention. ‘ DEATH FROM MALARIA. ‘ WELLINGTON, October 20. The inquest on the seaman from a i tanker which put into Wellington on Monday, resulted in a verdict that de- , ceased, Erland Karlsen, 24, died from • malignant malaria. . . H. Larsen, who was admitted to hospital, was stated to-day to be improving. ILLEGAL RADIO STATION DUNEDIN, October 20. George Roberts, 18, was lined 10/-. with costs, for using and maintaining an apparatus capable of transmitting wireless signals. The prosecution, stressing the seriousness of the offence, the penalty being £5OO, stated that the station was found in a condition in which it could not transmit, hut this could easily be remedied. The broadcast was confined t'o gramophone recordings. SWIMMING CERTIFICATES. WELLINGTON. October 20. In future, the special certificate awarded to schools for excellence in swimming will be granted on a basis that will permit schools to count all children who have qualified, irrespective of the year in which they did so, according to a decision of the annual conference of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. The disitances for the various types of certificates will remain as at present.