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* [PER press association.] ? WAGE INCREASE. WELLINGTON, September 18. [• The Arbitration Court to-day declined to make an order excluding £ drivers and assistants employed in . goods transport services under the i Transport Licensing Act from the operation of the General Order of August 9, increasing wages by 5 per . cent. ’ DRIVER IMPRISONED. AUCKLAND, September 19. As a sequel to a van colliding with a telegraph pole, badly damag- ; ing the van and breaking 25 telegraph wires, the driver, John Alexander, 41, engineer, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to intoxication while in charge of a vehicle. He was sentenced to seven days’ hard labour, and his license was cancelled for 12 months. WOMAN ACCUSED. AUCKLAND, September 19. On three charges of theft, allegedly involving a total of £1296, Phyliss Olive Barnett, 31, was in the Police Court, to-day, committed for trial in the Supreme Court. Robert Urquhart, barrister, said that from April last, accused had been keeping his trust accounts under his supervision. As a 1 result of something he heard from the bank, he accused her of falsifying the books. Accused said things were wrong, but she was trying to put them right. Acused pleaded not guilty. Bail in two sureties of £2OO, was renewed. CLIPPER SERVICE. AUCKLAND, September 18. Beginning-the first regular passenger flight from, Auckland to San Francisco, Pan American Airways’ American Clipper took off from the Waitemata harbour ‘ at 7.50 o’clock this morning with 14 passengers, aS well as mail and freight. The clipper ] landed at Noumea at 3.37 o’clock this 1 afternoon, having completed the first 1 stage of the journey. It is scheduled to continue to Canton Island to-mor-" row.
The flying-boat Awarua, of Tasman Empire Airways, is scheduled to fly from Sydney to Auckland to-morrow with passengers, mail, and freight.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1940, Page 6
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