GENERAL -NEWS Alleged Forgery Involving £10,000

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1947, Page 4

GENERAL -NEWS Alleged Forgery Involving £10,000

Facing a charge of forgery, involving £lO,OOO of Government stock, Peter Edward Millett,, aged 24, a clerk, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington today and was remanded till Wednesday, the police indicating that •' a further remand would then be asked, for. ; i;

The charge was that on or about April 10, 1947, at Wellington, he did make a false document,, to wit a memorandum of transfer, purporting to be signed by J. J. Murchie, transferring £lO,OOO 3 per . cent. Government stock from Murchie to-one John Low, of 152 Willis .street,. Wei-, lington, with the intent that it be acted on as genuine, thus committing forgery. No application was made for bail. -(P.A.) invitation to Mr J. A. Lee

The Auckland central committee of the Democratic Party has decided to ask Mr J. A. Lee to contest the Mount Albert by-election in the interests of the party. A committee of three was set up to confer with Mr Lee. It was stated later that Mr Lee did not commit himself, but gave an undertaking that he would consider the position before nomination day.— (P.A.)

Fatal Injuries. A fatal .accident occurred at the Road Services bus terminal in Hinemoa street, Rotorua at 7.30, last evening, when a woman was run over by a bus and suffered fatal injuries from which she died almost immediately. She was Isabella Dobbs, aged 48, wife of Mr S. J. Dobbs, Ngongotaha. Mrs Dobbs, with her husband and daughter, had come to town in their car which was parked only a few yards away. She crossed the road on an errand and apparently was making her way back to the car when she was run over by a bus, driven by Mr R. E. Leaning, that was being backed on the roadway preparatory to taking its place on the kerb.—(P.A.)

Oil-Burning Locomotives The test changeover from coal locomotives to oil-burners has proved so successful .that it is the intention of the Railways Department to proceed with conversions in railway workshops until 42 oil-burning locomotives are in use. There are 17 locomotives running now, and it is hoped that there will be at least 26 working by Christmas, said the general manager of the department (Mr James Sawers) yesterday. There will be oil stations at Paekakariki, Palmerston North, Napier, Taihape, Taumarunui, and New Plymouth. Some of these are’ already operating. —(P.A.) Forestry School The New Zealand University Senate in Wellington yesterday agreed that the School of Forestry should be re-established under the University of New Zealand. The Dominion Federated Sawmillers’ Association was vitally interested in the proposed school, said the president of the association (Mr L. E. H. Baigent). However, if the influence of the State Forestry Service was in any way predominant in the instruction' and curriculum of the school, his association would not be in agreement with it. The Senate considered three courses —that the school be reestablished at. Canterbury, incorporated under Auckland University College, or established at Rotorua, where it would be independent of the university college.

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