DOMINION NEWS.
GAOL for failure to keep BOOKS.
WELLINGTON, July 27. •Y Russian Pole named John Joseph, a bankrupt, formerly a drap- : cm- at Eastbourne, was charged at the Magistrate’s flourt to-day with failure to keep books. Joseph is now employed at Auckland and is gradual lv getting on.his feet, but as tlie law did not permit of a fine he was sentenced to three months’ hard labor. The Magistrate remarked that , the Supreme Court had laid it down i that probation should not be granted ! in these cases, and ho had to abide j by the ruling. * ' H- T.LTNG EXPLOSIVES WITHOUT .W"* PERMIT. AUCKLAND, July 27. E Porter and Company, said to be ! the ’ largest firm in the Dominion i dealing in the sale of explosives, ! were fined £IOO at the Police Court ; to-day, on a charge of selling _ explosives without a permit. thirtythree charges were preferred. JJe- • fondants were convicted on eacli charge, and ordered to pay costs. 1 j 'HAMER, PUKAKI REFLOATED. ' ! CHRISTCHURCH, July 27. , . Advice has been received that the . Pukaki, which went ashore on o 3 reef twelve miles' from Noumea/ or : Sundav night has been floated on j , m d will leave Noumea .on Monday } \ next . for Dunedin. N/, v ■— : -
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Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9575, 28 July 1923, Page 5
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