DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 August 1940, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DRIVER IMPRISONED. WELLINGTON, August 19. Pleading guilty to intoxication while in charge of a car on Saturday night, Alfred Thomas Melrose Church, a plasterer, was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment, by Mr Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, today. His license was conceited for a year.

BOOKMAKERS FINED. DUNEDIN, August 17.

As a sequel to a raid on a hairdressing premises, Raymond Martin Quinn was fined £lOO and Wilbur Holsey Stewart was fined £2O for using the premises for bookmaking. Quinn has had several similar previous convictions, the police stated.

CHRISTCHURCH, August 17.

William John Oldridge, of Templeton, pleaded guilty to carrying on the business of a bookmaker. He was convicted and fined £l5, and was ordered to pay costs, in default 21 days’ imprisonment.

R.S.A. CLUB ROBBED.

AUCKLAND, August 19.

Theft of various sums of money, totalling £228, from the Devonport Returned Soldiers’ Club, between April, 1934, and August, 1940, was admitted by Ernest Masters, 60, clerk, before the Magistrate (Mr Morling). In a signed statement to the police, Masters said he was a war pensioner, having been a prisoner of war in the last war. He was secretary of the Devonport Returned Soldiers’ Club to March last, when he was also appointed treasurer. Some time after his appointment as secretary, he began using the Club’s money for his own purposes, continuing until June last. ■ He altered figures in the bank book. He earned £6 weekly, but lived above his means.

The police said that Masters gave himself up. Masters pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence.