DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1940, Page 9

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.] THEFT OF TOBACCO. AUCKLAND, December 1. Thieves entered a Self Help store at Avondale early this morning and stole between £3O and £4O wortji of tobacco. BARMAN AND BOOKIES WELLINGTON, December 3. When his client, Ernest Browne, 44, barman, was fined £3O on a bookmaking charge, counsel asked for time .to pay. “He ought to get his principals to pay,” said Mr. Stout, S.M., “if he is acting as an agent.” “They don’t always pay,” said counsel. “Well, they ought to,” commented the S.M. Counsel had stated that Browne was only acting as an agent, to oblige customers. PILLION-RIDER KILLED. TIMARU, December 2. Peter James Murray, aged 20, a son of Mr Peter Murray, of Southburn, died in the Timaru Hospital as the result of injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident at Pleasant Point on Saturay night. The rider of the motor-cycle, Francis E. Campbell, escaped with abrasions and shock. Murray, who was a prospective buyer of the cycle, was being taken a trial run by Campbell, and returning from near the Public Works camp on the Timaru-Fairlie highway, the cycle ran off the bitumen along a pipe-line and crashed into an electric light, pole. CHEESE FACTORIES. PALMERSTON N., December 2. Contending that it is “a useless and ridiculous piece of legislation,” the Wellington branch of the Dairy Factories and Related Trades Employees’ Union has resolved to request the Minister of Labour (Mr Webb) to abolish the order increasing the hours to be worked in cheese factories. It is held that the order does not help in any way to produce the extra - 15,000 tons of cheese required by Great Britain. It was also stated that few companies have chosen to work undei the order, “which has only promoted trouble and discontent in the industry.”

TRANS-TASMAN FLIGHT AUCKLAND, December 1. Strong head winds were encountered by the Trans-Tasman EmpireAirways flying-boat, Aotearoa, in a flight from Sydney to-day. The time (9hr 23min) taken for the journey was somewhat longer than usual. Rough weather near sea level was escaped by the machine flying at a high altitude for much of the distance. The oldest passenger to travel by the Trans-Tasman Empire-Airways, Mrs. Jane Pope, aged 85 years, of Hamilton, returned from Sydney by the Aotearoa. Mrs. Pope travelled, to Sydney in the Awarua on her birthday, October 27, and was therefore possibly the first person to celebrate that anniversary in both Auckland and Sydney on the same day. No more boats for me in the future, she said. “I told the captain of the Aotearoa that I may go back in five years.