DOMINION NEWS TYPEWRITER STOLEN FROM MINISTER’S CAR

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 April 1946, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS TYPEWRITER STOLEN FROM MINISTER’S CAR

Charged with stealing a portable typewriter, valued at £l5, the property of the Government, Patrick J ack Emmett, a painter, aged 25, and John George Irvine Fisher, a seaman, aged 42, appeared before Mr. J. Morling, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland, yesterday. A plea of guilty was entered for both accused. SeniorDetective Trethewey said that on February 25 a Cabinet Minister, his secretary, and chauffeur were leaving their hotel, and the chauffeur placed the typewriter in the back of the car. Emmett took it out, and next day Fisher took it to a second-hand dealer, who told him it was stolen. The typewriter was left there and later recovered. Both counsel said the action was the result of drink. The Magistrate said it was a most audacious action to take a typewriter from a car and try to sell it. Each of the acidised was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.—(P.A.) Search for Body. No trace has been found of Gordon Anderton, of Pukeokahu who was drowned in the flooded headwaters of the Rangitikei river on Saturday. The search, for the body is continuing.— (P.A.). Dominion Chief Scout

Word has been received in New Zealand from the Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, Lord Rowallan, that the GovernorGeneral designate of New Zealand (Sir Bernard Freyberg) was invested in London as Chief Scout for the Dominion. Lord Rowallan carried out the investiture. This information was released yesterday by the Chief ] Commissioner in the Dominion, Mr Hector -Christie, of Wanganui.— (P.A.) Husband and Wife Reunited A husband and wife who vzere separated for four years and three months through the Japanese invasion of the Netherlands Indies were reunited in Wellington yesterday, when Mr G. O. Kruys, assistant resident in the southern Tapanoili district of Sumatra, arrived on the hospital ship Tasman. He was met by his wife who arrived with the first group of evacuees in February. They were separated on February 1, 1942. Both were subsequently interned by the Japanese, and neither knew the other was alive until October last. — (I'.A.) Posts with UNRRA Four Wellington girls will leave next week-end or early next week to join UNRRA in China. They are Miss Helen Fenwick, formerly deputydirector of Wrens, who will take up secretaarial duties, Miss Sylvia McLaren, Miss Kathleen Robinson, and Miss Louise Tomsett, who will work as stenographers for UNRRA officials. They will be stationed at Shanghai for some time, and later may be posted to any of the 15 regional offices of UNRRA in China. Another Wellington girl, Miss Joan Young, has already left to take up secretarial work with UNRRA in Shanghai.—(P.A.)