DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 December 1940, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.]

CAR CONVERTERS

DUNEDIN, December 17

Albert John McGee Guyton, 19, and Daniel David Miller Andrews, 21, were each sentenced at the Magistrate’s Court, to twelve months’ reformative detention for the conversion of cars.

WINDOW-CLEANER’S FALL. WELLINGTON, December 17.

Falling from the third floor of a city building, this morning, a window cleaner, Sydney Resteaux, fractured both legs at the ankle, left wrist, and received shock. He .was admitted to the hospital. His condition is serious.

CYCLIST KILLED.

CHRISTCHURCH, December 17

Charles Septimus Stevens, 38, of Bryndwi’ Road, died in the Christchurch Public Hospital, early this morning, following a collision between two cycles about 5.30 p.m. yesterday. The cycles touched and both riders fell off, Stevens losing consciousness. SOCIAL DANGER. WELLINGTON, December 17. For the second time within five years, Stanley Winwood Mackissack Reid, 36, was sentenced to five years’ reformative detention for assault, with intent to commit rape.*'' Judge Smith said the present offence was committed while Reid was on licence during his last sentence.

NIGHT ON RANGES.

’AUCKLAND, December 16.

A tramping party of seven members of the St. David’s Rover Scout crew and two young women, under the leadership of Dr. Hill McDougal, spent a night in the Waitakere Ranges through losing their way. They left the city in two cars yesterday morning for Cascades, and then tramped to Anawata stream. There one rover sprained.an ankle, delaying the party’s return until after dark.

When they got off the track, . a compass course was set for Symthe’s Ridge and the party reached tliere at midnight and decided to wait until daylight. They then returned to Cascades, but were further delayed because one of the cars had been bogged as a\ result of heavy rain. Meanwhile, a police car travelled 160 miles searching. The police heard at Karakare that the trampers were safe.