DOMINION NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1939, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS

|>EJ{ press association.] INTOXICATED DRIVER. WELLINGTON, October 27. Stated by the police to have attracted the attention of traffic inspectors because he drove so slowly, Richard Cornwall Conn. 31, an assembler, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to-day, to having been in a. state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-ear on lhe. Ngaha.ura.nga Gorge road. He was lined £l5 and his driving license was cancelled for a year. YOUNG WOMAN REMANDED. AUCKLAND, October 27. A young married woman from Melbourne. who was arrested on lhe Monterey ou October 16, on arrival from Australia, again appeared on remand in the Magistrate’s Court. She was charged with unlawfully taking an unmarried girl, tinder IG, ont-of the possession ami against the will of her parent, her guarrtian, ami the person having lawful cafe and charge of her. Acting Detective Cromwell staled that he arrested the woman on a provisional warrant. Accused admitted that she was the person named in the warrant. She was remanded until Tuesday on bail of £2OO. ILLEGAL SALE Ob’ LIQUOR. DUNEDIN. October 27. The circumstances were unusual, and the case was the first of its kind in Dunedin and rare in the Dominion, said a police officer when executive officers of lhe Working Men’s Social Club were charged that, the club having no charter, they supplied liquor to members, payment being made indirectly by coupons of a. face value of 3d. The police said that, the club was registered under the Friendly Societies .Registration Act, and had applied for a, charter, which had been declined. The police said they believed that, the defendants acted in a. mistaken conception of their rights. The club was well conducted and orderly, and drinking activities played a very minor part. Each defendant was fined 10/-. FALSE PRETENCES. WELLINGTON. October 27. Two years’ imprisonment was imposed by Mr. .1. L. Stout, S.M., on Arthur Jeffrey Durrant, 52, labourer, who pleaded guilty to .15 charges of obtaining money and goods by false pretences with valueless ■ cheques, and two charges of obtaining credit by fraud.

It was Durran’t fifty-third appearance before a Court, according to De-tective-Sergeant P. Doyle. Durrani, he said, had never departed from one system of crime. On the present offences Durrant obtained nearly £63 in money and £9/8/- in goods and £l9 10/- credit, operating on a joint Account at a bank at Taumarunui, opened when he entered partnership with another man on a firewood cutting job.