DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 March 1943, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

FATAL INJURIES AUCKLAND, March 5.

Fatal injuries were received by an electrician employed by the Auckland Harbour Board, and his companion was injured, when both fell from a roof on the waterfront. The man killed was Joseph Taylor, aged 58, married. The injured man is Gordon Harold Kassell, aged 50, married, who is also a Harbour Board electrician. Kassell suffered a fracture of the left leg. Both men were working on the roof of a shed on the Northern Wharf when part of the roofing gave way under them. They fell about 20 feet to the wharf. THEFT CHARGES NEW PLYMOUTH, March 5. Admitting that he had stolen a bicycle at Palmerston North on November 15, and also a quantity of clothing at Auckland on January 18 for the purpose of obtaining money to assist him after he deserted from an army camp, Gordon Hobbs, aged 21, was convicted by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court this morning. He was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on each theft charge with the recommendation that he be returned to complete a term of Borstal detention from which he had been released on license, the sentence to be concurrent. Hobbs was charged with the theft at Pamerston North of a bicycle, the property of R. A. Spooner and valued at £5, and with he theft at Auckland from Violet May Evitt, of a quantity of men’s clothing valued at £27/18/6. Police said Hobbs had been in a military camp since last July. He stole the bicycle from another man in camp and sold it to a third soldier for £5. He left camp without leave in December and went to Auckland, where he stayed in a soldier’s hostel until he went to private lodgings and there stole the clothing, some of which was sold to a second-hand dealer in Auckland. Only two small articles had been recovered.