DOMINION NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 November 1939, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS

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OPIUM OFFENCES'. DUNEDIN. Noverii'bcr 4

. Young' Poy, 537aMs fined £-25 iri the Magistrate’s Court for being in pusses'-' Sion of opium. Young .Yofk.Munn, 34, another Chinese, AA'as fined" £5,0 for permitting premises to be uS'ed for smoking opium;

FINE EbR BOOKMAKING/ DUNEDIN, Noveihher 6.

On..a ch'arge of bookmaking, Robert' Sim Tr’dlip, barman, was fiiied . £4O, iir the Police Court. The. police stated lie Was- acting for a bookmaker, and avus receiving 2/- in the pound commission.

GIRL’-S FATAL FALL. HASTINGS, November 6

Striking her hearl on a section of concrete, Avhen shfe fell 3ft Gin from the back of a stationary motor-lorry, yesterday, Alison Shirley Hmitfer, the seven-years-okl- daughter of Mr. and Mrs, J. Hunter, 104 WiilOAypark Road, received injuries from Avhic.h she subsequently died.

BURGLAR - SENTENCED. AUCKLAND,- November 6

. Allan Farquhar Young, 19, was sentenced to twelve- months’ reforriiatiVe detention, to be cumulative on the sentence lie is at present serving, by Mr. Justice Fair, in the Supreme •Court, on a charge of breaking arid entering and theft at Hutchinson’s jewellery shop in Queen’s Arcade. The Judge remarked that prisoner had been given everj 7 chance and assistance, Avhich he had not appreciated. It Avas .impossible to admit him to probation, in vieAV of his record of serious crime. It seemed that kindness Avas Avasted upon him.

NEGLIGENT DRIVING. AUCKLAND, November 6

Remarking that at no time during the tAvo trials had there been the slightest hint of liquor against the prisoner, and that the circumstances in no Avay suggested that prisoner Avas a road-hog, Mr. Justice Callan, in the Supreme Court, said that he Avould not pass a term of imprisonment on Frank Brooks, shoAvmari, 56, ivho was found guilty by the jury of negligent, driving so as to cause the death oT Patrick Daley, a roadman, who Avas knocked dOAvn by a truck driven by Brookes, on PillbroAv’s Hill;, near Waipu, on July 3. Prisoner Avas ; fined £5O and Avas disqualified from holding a driver’s license for one- year. Three riioriths Avere alloAved in Avhich- to pay the fine:

INTOXICATED DRIVER AUCKLAND, November 6

“The Court is trying to put a stop to motor-drivers adjourning to hotels,” said Mr. McKean, S.M., in the Police Court at Otahuhu, to-day, Avhen sentencing Dennis Handley, a butcher employed at Westfield, to 14 days’ imprisonment, and cancelling- his licence for 12 months, for intoxication while in charge of a motor-car. A traffic inspector said that Handley Avas driving erratically on Saturday afternoon at Wiri. He said he did not know Avhere he Avas going. Two doctors certified him as being unfit to drive.

Defending counsel said that Handley Avas a returned soldier. He submitted that no harm had been done, and that tlie case Avas not bad. The S.M.: They are all bad.

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