Dominion News

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 September 1949, Page 2

Dominion News

Ottawa Valley Still At Anchor The Canadian freighter Ottawa Valley has been at anchor in Auckland harbour for 50 days. Secrecy surrounds the negotiations which are understood to have been going on to enable her to berth and discharge her 7000 tons of cargo.— (P.A.) Building Trade in Auckland

Conditions in the building trade in Auckland were now back to normal, said Mr J. M. Whittaker, president of the Auckland Master Builders' Association, yesterday.. The position all round was very satisfactory, and reports' indicated that there were now as many, if not more, men employed in the industry than before the mass dismissals in February during the carpenters’ dispute.—(P.A.).

Quintuplet Lambs Quintuplets were born on a Mangateretere farm on Thursday afternoon. They are the offspring of a ewe, the property of Mr C. McCarthy. One of the five lambs subsequently died, but the remaining four and the mother are reported to be doing well. Quintuplets are not unique in sheepfarming, although they are rare, and it is seldom that even a majority of them survives.—(P.A.) Offensive .Behaviour The opinion. that the penalty allowed by the Act was wholly inadequate was expressed Try the Bench when Robert Lionel Boyd was charged in the Magistrate’s Court at Dannevirke, before Justices of the Peace, with offensive behaviour in Napier last May, in that, the accused had written offensive letters suggesting indecent, acts and left them on Brewster Steps, near the Napier Girls’ High School. Boyd, who pleaded guilty, was fined £5, the maximum penalty under the Act An application for suppression of name was refused. The accused was also convicted and admitted to probation for 12 months on a charge of false pretences involving a small sum. The letters wjere written as if a correspondence was being carried. on between high school girls, said Sergeant Rippin, and suggested that they meet the accused ata given place. The accused, a married man, aged 34, had left the letters lying on the steps in the hope that the girls might pick them up and meet him. —-(P.A.)